Sending mails - nothing happening

[Toot]

Everything appears to be fine with my fresh-out-the-box v5.1.0 installation on CentOS4, apart from mailings aren't doing anything - the same thing happens with admin/test/normal sends. The only hint that something isn't working properly is that I get a single line in /var/log/maillog, e.g.:

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Jul  2 09:48:20 trillian xmlback[8489]: mail creation: 0;1;1;1;5;A;1;0;2;1;4381

Normal users can send mails OK, e.g.:

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mail -s Test whoever@wherever.com < mailcontentfile

I've had a good dig around the forums and verified that the appropriate packages are installed - at least I think so... the python-like ones are "python-2.3.4-14.3" and "MySQL-python-1.0.0-1.RHEL4.1".

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance,
Toot

PS: This thread appears to be similar but my German isn't up to it I'm afraid - is it hinting that I need a different postfix installation???

[Toot]

There's a load of files - df* and qf* in /home/openemm/var/spool/ADMIN and /home/openemm/var/spool/QUEUE ... so I take it they're just not being sent ... what config am I missing to kick this into life? And/or how/where do I find the logs with the errors!?!?!?

Thanks again,
T

[Toot]

It seems to me like postfix just needs to be told to process the var/spool/ADMIN and var/spool/QUEUE directories ... but I'm new to postfix and can't find anything on configuring it for multiple queues ... I would have expected to find something in the OpenEMM docs somewhere??? As this is pretty key to actually using OpenEMM, someone must have gone through it before ... ????? Please????

TIA,
T

[ud]

For proper working OpenEMM, sendmail is required at the moment, postfix is not supported.

-- ud

[Toot]

Ah that would explain it then! You say "at the moment" ... does that mean it's coming? Any idea when?

Thanks for your response.
T

[maschoff]

OpenEMM 5.5 will optionally work without Sendmail (like the Windows version).

[jminiko]

Hi there,

I have followed the instructions of the wiki, I do not manage to get emailing received. The point is that folders META and ARCHIVE are fully populated after a sending but no mail is received by recipients.
I have the same symptoms here as previous.
Any help appreciated,

platform: centos, hosting: 1and1 dedicated server
Jim

[maschoff]

Does your 1&1 server use sendmail? If not, have you disabled the SMT server and enabled OpenEMM's internal SMTP server?

[phx_zs]

Sorry to dig up an old thread. I'm having the same issue. Went through a lot of work and tweaking to get OpenEMM running and now that I've set up some Mailings, Target Groups, Recipients, Mailing Lists and Actions and tried sending out a mailing it says all the emails were sent but I never received anything (to regular, test, or admin sends). There are multiple files in the spool directories.

My server is running CentOS 5.5 with PHP 5.2 and sendmail is installed. I can send emails from the shell. Any advice? Should I try using OpenEMM's internal SMTP (and if so where is the documentation on that)?

Thanks in advance!

[maschoff]

If your Sendmail does not send mails a switch to OpenEMM's internal mail server won't help (how to do this is described in the OpenEMM Install Guide), because something must be wrong with your configuration.

[phx_zs]

The sendmail program is installed correctly and works from the shell...it must just be a configuration issue with my OpenEMM installation. Any ideas of where to look for what would be causing it?

I found this in the FAQ:
http://www.openemm.org/faq/questions/25 ... ux+only%29

#7 says I could try adding "define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')" to my sendmail.mc file. My hosting company (GoDaddy) does have a specific SMTP relay server I can use if that would work.

Thanks!