Forum OpenACS Development: Re: AcsMailLite - Lost on debugging

It seems smtpout all of sudden stopped to authenticate.

I thought at first it was a parameter issue to amend within acs-mail-lite parameter's section. As Claudio well mentioned. but all seems fine there.

I'm able to send mails from prompt line, within mail command, but not from OACS. Would a DNS setting such as CNAME or PFS record be an issue?

How would I make sure OACS layer is not the guilty.

Best wishes,
Iuri

The exception is raised by the command smtp::sendmessage [1] from tcllib. To sort out the OpenACS dependencies, write a small tcl smt client script (as shown in [1]) to see the results.

The man page [1] mentions as well that smtp servers have recently deactivated SSLv3 because of the POODLE attack. If the simple smtp client essentially doing the same as acs-mail-lite fails, please activate tls1 manually from the smtp client script as indicated on the man page. if this helps, we will find a way to do this automatically from acs-mail.lite

-g

[1] https://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/doc/trunk/embedded/www/tcllib/files/modules/mime/smtp.html

In case you did not get the intention of the script:

a) acs-mail-lite uses finally tcllib's smtp package

b) you asked, how to debug smtp without OpenACS interference (your formulation "How would I make sure OACS layer is not the guilty". The answer is to call tcllibs smpt package functions via a small script without OpenACS (as indicated in the man page). You can call this script from the shell with any option (look at the options of .::smtp::sendmessage in the manpage). If find a options combination that works from the script, you can check afterwards, how to pass these options via acs-mail-lite. If you find NO combination of options that work, then acs-mail-lite can't do anything, and you have to debug tcllibs smtp.

But since have have fixed out already you misconfiguration, there is no need for going this way.