Question

I get this error email from my server when the MailNotify tries to run. Can anyone tell me what might be wrong. Someone changes a topic and MailNotify running from cron every 30 minutes sends an updated to those subscribers in the $WEB.!WebNotify topic.

WARNING: Failed to find permitted email for ' * AllPointwiseGroup: *' when processing web 'CodeDesign'

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-- GaryBrown - 15 Feb 2006

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It's difficult to answer if you have locked the topic. Your problem seems related with the TWiki lib path which MUST be an absolute path. You may change the corresponding entry in your FILEPATHTOYOURTWIKIHOME/bin/LocalLib.cfg file. Hope this helps (your olives ).

BTW: There's a new KnownIssuesOfTWiki04x00x00 with 4.0.1 regarding E-mail notification (already solved in SVN).

-- FranzJosefSilli - 16 Feb 2006

Ok Thank you very much. I thought I had fixed that before but I must have done it wrong because that did fix the location error.

Now I am getting an error about an array reference and an exact reference. I do not see this on line 74 of mailer.pm like it says so I was hoping you knew what it might be refereing to.

Here is the exact error message I get now. Can't use string ("1") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at twiki/lib//TWiki/Contrib/Mailer.pm line 74.

-- GaryBrown - 17 Feb 2006

I had the same problem and now I got it fixed see EmailNotificationNotWorkingInDakar. Hope it helps you.

-- DaliborSvoboda - 17 Feb 2006

If that didn't fix it, how are you calling the mail notification script?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 17 Feb 2006

Here is the command that I am using to call mailnofier: /usr/bin/perl -l /hsphere/local/home/weolive/weolive.com/twiki/bin/mailnotifier.cgi -m

Here is the error message that I get emailed to me: Can't use string ("1") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at twiki/lib//TWiki/Contrib/Mailer.pm line 74.

-- GaryBrown - 17 Feb 2006

mailnotifier is the old script of TWiki 01-Sep-2004. Please use the new mailnotify script located in twiki/tools.

Example: perl -I /path/to/twiki/bin /path/to/twiki/tools/mailnotify

See details in TWiki04.MailerContrib

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Feb 2006

I just changed my setup and used twiki/tools/mailnotify instead of my old script at twiki/bin/mailnotify. I get the same error from the tools/mailnotify that it can't find the email address for my local twiki account. The full error is: WARNING: Failed to find permitted email for ' * MikeEggleston: *' when processing web 'Testing'

-- MikeEggleston - 20 Mar 2008

Any idea on this one?

-- MikeEggleston - 25 Mar 2008

In the %Web%.WebNotify topic if I replace a symbolic group name with an actual email address (replace AllCompanyGroup with staff@$domain.com) the notify works.

-- MikeEggleston - 09 Apr 2008

I am having exactly the same problem, with same symptoms and same workaround (specifying a full email address works, using MyWikiName or MyWikiName doesn't work). It did work in the old version of TWiki, and stopped with version 4.2... It seems to be a bug in Subscriber.pm...

-- HaegarSchmidt - 27 Apr 2008

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. best to open a new support question describing details.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jun 2008