WGET Has Been Disabled By Host

[dougl]

When I run Test Mailings, I get Success for both SMTP and Bounce.  However, I only receive an email for SMTP.  Everything appears to be set up correctly.

I asked my host about WGET and they said it was disabled, so I'm assuming this is the problem.

I'm using the CPanel Forwarder to send the bounce and signup email addresses to "| /home/my user name/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi" etc.

What now?

Doug

[DW]

I have received your tech support request and will handle this there.  I suspect we can use an alternative to wget.  I will login to your server with hte access information provided and do some testing.

Regards

[bhl007]

I'm also having the same problem.

No email to admin.

What's the solution?

[DW]

This could be due to PHP mail() not working (Do welcome and confirmation messages work?  They use the same process) or the dailymail command 'wget' not being available.

Some alternatives to wget are as follows:

(example for 11:57pm)

57 23 * * * /usr/bin/fetch -o /dev/null -T 0 http://www.example.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

57 23 * * * curl -o /dev/null http://example.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 2> /dev/null

57 23 * * * lynx > -O /dev/null -dump http://example.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Regards

[bhl007]

the dailyMail is working fine. I use wget for the dailyMail.

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Just the bounce back testing doesn't getting any email to the admin email.

I already follow every step including change the signuplist and cgi path to my listmail path. Then upgrade to cgi-bin with chmod 755. setup bounce back forwarder email.

[DW]

Note that the correct path to perl and wget may also need to be configured in the .cgi scripts.  Make sure the .cgi scripts are chmod 755 and if the email alias/forwarder is set up correctly (you may need to ask your host for help) the .cgi script should receive the email successfully.

Try emailing your bounce email address from Outlook or webmail with a message containing TESTBOUNCE in the subject line.  If you receive a bounce back it could give some information about an error with delivery to the script.

What type of web host are you on?  ie.  What is the name of the "Control Panel" software?  I may be able to help with some specifics for your server.

Regards, DW

[bhl007]

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  pipe to |/home/myownusername/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi
    generated by bounce@affiliatehints.com
    local delivery failed

This is the message i receive when post to bounce mail.
I'm using cPanel.

[DW]

It looks like the forward is ok.  Please double check that the bounce.cgi file is chmod to 755 and executable.  cPanel shouldn't be too difficult.

Regards, DW

[mmeehan]

Sirs,

I am a new user with the same problem.  The additional difficulty is that I do not have the same level of Server expertise that is apparent with your other users. I need a more detailed level of assistance.

How should I begin troubleshooting this problem?

Thank you.

[DW]

Greetings,

Have you set up the default cron task already as per the help page?

The first alternative I recommend is "curl", set your cron command as follows:

curl -o /dev/null http://example.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 2> /dev/null

Regards

[BGSWebDesign]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem, I've ran LMP for years... suddenly this afternoon I see that resume.php is not 'resuming the queue'.  I've deleted the top 2 records - that usually does it, but even then, it still says at the top there are records left in the send queue.

I've tried everything I can think of, CURL, and now even manually running resume.php from the command line via:
http://mydomain.com/mail/resume.php?pw=mypass

Still no luck - the send queue seems stuck???

Any ideas what is going on here?

[DW]

The only way I will be able to explain this is with access to your installation.  Please submit a bug report and I will investigate.

Regards.

[BGSWebDesign]

Hi DW,

Thanks, I canceled the queue, if it hangs up tomorrow on the Dailymail I'll submit a bug report and you can check it out.

Thanks,
-Brett

[BGSWebDesign]

Ok, I did not get my Dailymail report this morning and there are no queued messages according to the LMP homepage.  Something is going on....

One of two things??  I'll try removing the extra 'tracked links' I have, and the bounced users to reduce the MySQL database size, and see what happens tomorrow, after that - bug report.

[DW]

What you report indicates a possible cron task issue and may not be related to your inability to resume a stalled queue.  Could your host have disabled 'wget' as mentioned originally in this thread?

You could try to receive the email output of your cron tasks.  Remove the "1> /dev/null 2>/dev/null" so there is some output (the error or success message) to send.

Regards