Re: Communigate+Webcat

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2001

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texte = Aaron,On OSX I believe Emailer is integrated into the webcatalog process and thisactually sends the email - Webcatalog/Emailer watches the folders set up inthe email preference pages and then sends the mail using the SMTP serverspecified.Your best option I think would be to send mail using[writefile file=[cart]......Duplicate the text files a [sendmail] context creates with writefile and letCommunigate send them from the directory they are written to.That way you will know which have errored, can't be sent and they will beserviced faster than emailer can do it.Emailer is a couple of beers short of a six pack when it comes to maildelivery.> On 9/19/01 7:46 PM, The Defendant Alain Russell> Confessed:> >> Webcat on OSX writes a file when using the sendmail command.>> Have a look in /library/webserver/cgi-executables/webcatalogengine/email...>> Folders - these are the text files senmail writes.>> >> You should see pretty quickly who creates what.>> >> And I meant the time zones on the client machine - yours..>> These can cause mail to display funny times as well.> > > OK, How the hell does this work?> > Alain is indeed correct, webcat writes the file to this Dir.> > But, the AFAICT the directory is not an alias or a symlink. I can't find> any setting in Communigate telling it to look in the directory.> > > So, how does the text file actually get sent?> > I've tried changing the smtp server in the prefs from localhost to the FQDN> of the machine, but the date is still off.> > Webcat doesn't write the date in the text file, so the MTA is messing it up,> but which program is actually sending the mail??> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/> -------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Aaron,On OSX I believe Emailer is integrated into the webcatalog process and thisactually sends the email - Webcatalog/Emailer watches the folders set up inthe email preference pages and then sends the mail using the SMTP serverspecified.Your best option I think would be to send mail using[writefile file=[cart]......Duplicate the text files a [sendmail] context creates with writefile and letCommunigate send them from the directory they are written to.That way you will know which have errored, can't be sent and they will beserviced faster than emailer can do it.Emailer is a couple of beers short of a six pack when it comes to maildelivery.> On 9/19/01 7:46 PM, The Defendant Alain Russell> Confessed:> >> Webcat on OSX writes a file when using the sendmail command.>> Have a look in /library/webserver/cgi-executables/webcatalogengine/email...>> Folders - these are the text files senmail writes.>> >> You should see pretty quickly who creates what.>> >> And I meant the time zones on the client machine - yours..>> These can cause mail to display funny times as well.> > > OK, How the hell does this work?> > Alain is indeed correct, webcat writes the file to this Dir.> > But, the AFAICT the directory is not an alias or a symlink. I can't find> any setting in Communigate telling it to look in the directory.> > > So, how does the text file actually get sent?> > I've tried changing the smtp server in the prefs from localhost to the FQDN> of the machine, but the date is still off.> > Webcat doesn't write the date in the text file, so the MTA is messing it up,> but which program is actually sending the mail??> > > -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/> -------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Alain Russell

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