Forum OpenACS Q&A: Instant Notification is not working on my systems ...

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1: Instant Notification is not working on my systems ...
Posted by Kiran Halwai on 08/19/04 09:07 AM
I have openACS 5.1.1 and running sendmail too. I am not getting the notifications on Forums, Calendars even though I have subscribed for it. I made it sure that emails are working by clicking on "Forgot password" link.

Please provied the clues?

Regards,
Kiran Halwai

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2: Re: Instant Notification is not working on my systems ... (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 08/19/04 10:01 AM
What does your mail log (possibly in /var/log/maillog) say, if anything?

Are the notifications scheduled procs running?  (You'll see them in openACS's error.log.)

I don't have this one covered in http://acornhosting.net/articles/openacs_email/ - if you'll update the thread when you find the answer, I'd like to add it. :)

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3: Re: Instant Notification is not working on my systems ... (response to 2)
Posted by Kiran Halwai on 08/20/04 08:46 AM
Cathy, thanks for the pointers. Here is how I solved the notifications issue.

1. Permission issues: My system did not have the permission as follows - (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2002060609535245)

-r-xr-sr-x    root  smmsp    ... /PATH/TO/sendmail
drwxrwx---    smmsp  smmsp    ... /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwx------    root  wheel    ... /var/spool/mqueue
-r--r--r--    root  wheel    ... /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
-r--r--r--    root  wheel    ... /etc/mail/submit.cf

2. In /var/lib/aolserver/open_qualex/packages/acs-tcl/tcl dir I need to -

cp base64-procs.tcl base64.tcl
cp md5-procs.tcl md5.tcl
cp mime-procs.tcl mime.tcl

3. /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start

4. To get the emails from inside, I had to setup the smart relay to my mail server inside /etc/mail/sendmail.cf -
DShostname.domain.com

Regards,
Kiran Halwai