[Box-Admins] Mail delivery from dan.box.squeak.org to mail.squeak.org at 162.242.237.43

[Tobias Pape]

> On 05.01.2018, at 14:30, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Tobias,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:31:31AM +0100, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
>> 
>>> On 05.01.2018, at 01:21, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am only guessing, but stepping through the smtp interaction in a debugger
>>> tells me that an optional username/password may be exchanged in the smtp
>>> protocol. The squeaksource.com image does not supply this, possibly because it
>>> originally sent mail via box2.squeak.org, and now via mail.squeak.org (???).
>>> 
>>> Is a username/password required for the client on dan.box.squeak.org to connect
>>> to the smtp server at mail.squeak.org?
>> 
>> Sorry I did not step in earlier.
>> 
>> Yes. I configured the mailer to _relay_ for our boxen, so that there's no user/pw interchange.
>> What would it be in the first place?
> 
> I was just taking a wild guess there, thanks for the clarification.
> 
>> 
>> Also, You could try localhost, there's an exim running that uses mail. as a smarthost.
> 
> Well d'oh! I am an idiot. I thought I had tried that a long time ago, but
> apparently not. I just ran a test with localhost and it works fine.
> 
>> 
>> I wonder, because it had worked up until now???
> 
> It has never worked since the move to Rackspace. I had disabled the mail delivery
> in the squeaksource.com image to prevent problems (VMMaker is on source.squeak.org
> now, and I'm not sure that anyone would care about the mail notifications anyway).
> 
> But it turns out that there are occasional error conditions in SqueakSource for
> which the image tries to send mail to the box-admins list, which (due to
> the mail failures) results in a recursive error condition that eventually
> locks up the image.
> 
> I'll update the squeaksource.com image to relay the mail via localhost. That will
> resolve the problem of occasional image lockups.
> 
> Thank you!

\o/

:D
	-t