Author Topic: Mailing interrupted (Read 2527 times)

cobbey · « **on:** December 14, 2004, 11:21:49 am »

My program was never completely installed as my host would not allow putting a small piece of code in the root directory. So the bounce processing has never worked. Also, the program would stall out after sending something around 150 messages and require restarting. Nevertheless, for my small lists this was easier to deal with than changing hosts so I put up with it.

Just now, though, the program has siezed up and stopped altogether. After sending 171 newsletters, and having to be restarted as usual, it popped up a message:

Sending error. Check your mail settings.
Server said: Go to Config

Of course nothing had changed in the configuration.

Can you figure out what's happening?

DW · « **Reply #1 on:** December 14, 2004, 12:31:56 pm »

I don't recall the problem you had setting up bounce.cgi. As far as I know, nothing ever needs to be done in the root directory. Your admin's assistance could, nevertheless, be required if the email "alias" cannot be set up in your hosting control panel.

As for the SMTP problem, it's hard to say. I recommend enabling SMTP debug messages.

Try changing the following in admin.php

Code: [Select]

 // debug, shows SMTP messages
 // $bugs = '1';

to

Code: [Select]

 // debug, shows SMTP messages
 $bugs = '1';

Resume your mailing and let me know what it says.

cobbey · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2004, 11:33:45 am »

When I resumed the mailing after making the change in admin.php I got the following message:

Checking mail...
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home2/www/nevadaweb/listmail/admin.php on line 705

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to :110 in /home2/www/nevadaweb/listmail/admin.php on line 705
Failed!

Connecting to SMTP server... Connected!
EHLOmsg=250-baku.host4u.net Hello nevadaweb.com [216.71.164.157], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 5000000
250-DSN
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
250 HELP
NOOPmsg=250 2.0.0 OK

Delaying.. Please wait..
If your mailing stops for any reason, close the window or [click here]. Do NOT Refresh!

Sending Mail

of 588..

No PIPELINING Support
MAILFROMmsg=250 2.1.0 ... Sender ok .

And, this is the code that never got placed where it needed to go. . . .

* ^TO_bounce@nevadaweb.com
| /home/nevadaweb/www/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi

DW · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2004, 11:54:38 am »

Did you recently enable "Authorize by checking email"? It looks like your hostname may be incorrect.

cobbey · « **Reply #4 on:** December 15, 2004, 04:32:58 pm »

I didn't make any changes to the configuration.

Authorize by checking email was checked. I unchecked it and got the same message as before.

DW · « **Reply #5 on:** December 16, 2004, 03:31:46 pm »

The most useful lines seem to be:

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Checking mail...
Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home2/www/nevadaweb/listmail/admin.php on line 705

Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to :110 in /home2/www/nevadaweb/listmail/admin.php on line 705

The part that says "unable to connect to :110" should probably say something like "unable to connect to localhost:110" or "unable to connect to mail.site.com:110".

If you can see, in the ListMail "Authorize by checking email section", that a hostname exists and is correct then it looks very much like this is a DNS problem on your host.