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Hi there,

I did try to send my first newsletter to about 2000 recipients Testmail worked perfecty. Now the sending to the recipients shows 0 and the logfiles tell me that there is no e-mail sent.

This seems to be because I did not configure sendmail like in the adminguide described. So I did try to configure it just like the instructions.
The result is, that I can not start sendmail now anymore!!

This is the error msg from /var/log/messages:
Mar 23 17:46:19 h1385633 syslog-ng[2732]: last message repeated 19 times
Mar 23 17:46:21 h1385633 console-kit-daemon[2314]: WARNING: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused

The admin guide says:
To activate all Sendmail changes, run the following commands:
cd /etc/mail
m4 linux.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
m4 linux.submit.mc > submit.mc
make

I did all changes and then:
make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Any ideas on how I can fix my sendmail and get openemm to start sending mails?

Thank you for your help!

Kind regards, Johannes

Hi there,

it seems that this was due to having openemm running. I have now stoped it an successfully restarted sendmail, then started openemm.

However I can still not send emails. The test e-mails got send, but not the real mails.

/var/log/mail says:
Mar 23 19:05:22 h1385633 sendmail[26374]: unable to write pid to /home/openemm/var/run/sendmail-openemm-queue.pid: Permission denied

Thank you for any help!

ok... another reply on my own post

I found in the FAQ:

pickdist ist not running on my system:
openemm 26088 26087 0 19:05 pts/1 00:00:00 -bash
openemm 26210 1 0 19:05 pts/1 00:00:00 python /home/openemm/bin/scripts/bav-trigger.py
openemm 26239 1 0 19:05 pts/1 00:00:00 python /home/openemm/bin/scripts/bavd.py
openemm 26241 1 0 19:05 pts/1 00:00:00 /home/openemm/bin/bav -L INFO
openemm 26402 1 0 19:05 pts/1 00:00:00 python /home/openemm/bin/scripts/slrtscn.py
openemm 26414 1 0 19:05 pts/1 00:00:00 perl /home/openemm/bin/wrapper.pl -chdir -name httpd -class com.caucho.server.resin.Resin -J-Dlog.h
openemm 26416 26414 2 19:05 pts/1 00:00:43 /opt/openemm.org/software/java/bin/java -Dlog.home=/home/openemm/var/log -Dlog4j.configuration=emm.


So I tryed to start it:
/etc/mail # /home/openemm/bin/pickdist.sh start
/home/openemm/bin/pickdist.sh: line 25: /root/bin/scripts/config.sh: No such file or directory

What is this file, and how can I fix it?

am I missing something? No word on picdist anywhere else. However one has to start it as a user openemm, not as root!

But even then picdist will not start, at least it is not in the process list.

A look on the pickdist.log logfile tells me:
[23.03.2009 19:44:55] 27910 INFO/main: Starting up
[23.03.2009 19:44:56] 27910 FATAL/except: CAUGHT EXCEPTION:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/openemm/bin/scripts/pickdist.py", line 193, in <module>
if pd.scanForData () == 0:
File "/home/openemm/bin/scripts/pickdist.py", line 120, in scanForData
db = agn.DBase ()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'DBase'


OK... I am giving up on this one for today. Looks like there is no answer here on my postings from anybody

solved :
mysql python missing
http://www.openemm.org/forums/ftopic9.html

Wow, this was it for me as well, and I am so relieved! This was a headache for 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.