[daisy] How to debug SMTP main notifications?

[Marc Portier]

Peter Dykstra wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any tips on how to debug an SMTP server setup?  We did 
> not set up SMTP on install, so edited the server entry in myconfig.xml 
> and restarted the server as described in the 2.1 doc. However a test of 
> notification emails is not working.
> 
> Is there any way to determine from the Daisy side if Daisy is set up 
> correctly and sending anything to the SMTP server? Log file? Any other 
> suggestions? Thanks in advance for any 
> assistance._______________________________________________

daisy keeps messages it needs to send in the database

> mysql> describe email_queue;
> +---------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> | Field         | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
> +---------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
> | from_address  | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | 
> | to_address    | varchar(255) | NO   |     |         |                | 
> | subject       | varchar(255) | NO   |     |         |                | 
> | message       | longtext     | NO   |     |         |                | 
> | retry_count   | smallint(6)  | NO   |     |         |                | 
> | last_try_time | datetime     | YES  |     | NULL    |                | 
> | created       | datetime     | NO   |     |         |                | 
> | id            | bigint(20)   | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment | 
> | error         | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |                | 
> +---------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+


the system attempts to send emails 3 times iirc, and stores any 
error-messages it received doing so in those records.

HTH,
-marc=

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