Question

I'm trying to get email notifications working, but if I run mailnotify it finds the changes I've made and then always says "0 change notifications". Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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-- BenjaminQuinn - 03 Aug 2007

Answer

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Check the .mailnotify file in the webs. Is it being written? is the user who runs the cron able to write it? (permissions)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 04 Aug 2007

Hmmmm.... now I'm getting some error about Authen::SASL not being found?

-- BenjaminQuinn - 06 Aug 2007

More specifically,

| 06 Aug 2007 - 11:33 | Can't locate Authen/SASL.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /hom e/httpd/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib//arch/ /home/httpd/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib//5.8.4/i386-lin ux-thread-multi/ /home/httpd/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib//5.8.4/ /home/httpd/twiki/lib/CP AN/lib// /home/httpd/twiki/lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/sh are/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl /5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Net/SMTP.pm line 102.

-- BenjaminQuinn - 06 Aug 2007

Hi all, this is a shameless bump

-- BenjaminQuinn - 23 Aug 2007

Looks like your SMTP server (or some other component) wants to do SASL authentication. For a start, install the Perl module Authen::SASL, but maybe you need more, depending on the SASL mechanism used in your environment. One of the candidates (used in our TWiki for LDAP/SASL authentication against a Microsoft Active Directory) is the GSSAPI module, a glue to standard kerberos packages.

-- HaraldJoerg - 24 Aug 2007

thats a simple fix.... install it

cpan Authen::SASL (presuming you have root access, or that you have set up a local cpan)

-- SvenDowideit - 24 Aug 2007

Seems to be answered. Please reopen with more details if not.

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Aug 2007