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Item4476: Missing error message when registration mail fails to be sent

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I made a small but common mistake and swapped the {SMTP}{MAILHOST} and {SMTP}{SENDERHOST} when configuring TWiki.

This is naturally wrong but a common trap. And we often see people having trouble with registration of first user because of email problems.

When you register the browser reports

Error registering new user

Internal error when sending email to kenneth@lavrsenNOSPAM.dk.

That may be OK

But in the apache error_log there is nothing. Zip zippelip. Nada.

This bug report simply suggests to help the twiki admin trouble shooting this common type of error by reporting the errors we get from either sendmail or Net::SMTP when the mailing fails.

-- TWiki:Main/KennethLavrsen - 21 Aug 2007

I output the error to the warning log, for two reasons:

  1. Not all users can read the apache error log
  2. It's non-fatal to TWiki
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Very good solution. Thanks for fixing this

-- TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen - 16 Sep 2007

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Summary Missing error message when registration mail fails to be sent
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.KennethLavrsen
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SVN Range TWiki-4.2.0, Tue, 21 Aug 2007, build 14577
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Priority Normal
CurrentState Closed
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Checkins TWikirev:14890
TargetRelease minor
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Topic revision: r7 - 2008-01-22 - KennethLavrsen
 
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