Forum OpenACS Q&A: problem with acs-mail-lite

Hi,

I am seeing the following in the error log:

[01/Jul/2005:05:21:11][16792.1098082496][-sched:12-] Error: invalid command name "acs_mail_lite::sweeper"
invalid command name "acs_mail_lite::sweeper"
while executing
"acs_mail_lite::sweeper"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval [concat [list $proc] $args]"
(procedure "ad_run_scheduled_proc" line 42)
invoked from within
"ad_run_scheduled_proc {t f 60 acs_mail_lite::sweeper {} 1120159630 0 f}"

I tried to reload the acs_mail_lite package and saw the following error

can't find package mime
while executing
"package require mime"
(file "/var/lib/.../acs-mail-lite/tcl/acs-mail-lite-procs.tcl" line 11)
invoked from within

from tclsh I get the same error

% package require mime
can't find package mime
%

If I do
tclsh% info library
/usr/local/lib/tcl8.5

Should I be seeing a mime library in that directory?

I have openacs 5.1 installed and tcl 8.5 installed

I am new to aolserver, tcl, and openacs so I apologize if my research has been ham-handed

Thanks,
Paul

Paul,

It's a strange behavior and i think it has nothing to do with your installed tcl version.

As far as i know mime package for acs-mail-lite is provided by acs-tcl. Look at file packages/acs-tcl/tcl/mime-procs.tcl. There is an approved TIP (https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=298282 ) to get rid of all old code in OpenACS that is has better equivalents in TCLlib (e.g: mime-procs) but i think it will be implemented only in future 5.3.

Please try restart your service and look for errors while loading acs-tcl procs. Anyway try install tcllib software (http://tcllib.sourceforge.net)

Install TCLLIB with the --prefix="/usr/local/aolserver" and get rid of the base64-procs.tcl and mime-procs.tcl altogether, as they are an old version 😊. Which is (partly) what you did already.