[horde] Sending long emails fails every time

[Louis-Philippe Allard]

On 2011-09-15, at 3:27 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:

> Zitat von Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Zitat von Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Zitat von Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 <at> gmail.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Hi,  I remember to have written to the mail list a few months ago
>>>>> regarding
>>>>>  problems sending lengthy emails...  I am trying to reply to Mike
>>>>> Rubinsky &
>>>>>  the list about my problems with ActiveSync but I cant send the email
>>>>>  (reply) because I get a red popup saying:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  "There was an error sending your message:  Failed to send data [SMTP:
>>>>>  Invalid response code received from server (code: -1, response: )]"
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Attached is my horde log that relates what happens when I try to send
>>>>>  such long emails...
>>>>> 
>>>>>  You better check your SMTP server's log.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Jan.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Like I said, I am using GMail's SMTP server to send emails. I do not have
>>>> my own SMTP server so I dont know which SMTP log to look at... I dont
>>>> believe my SMTP settings are defective...
>>>> I can send any kind of email except lenghty ones...
>>>> 
>>>> Settings from the Administration > Horde > Mailer tab:
>>>> 
>>>> * $conf[mailer][type]         Use a SMTP Server
>>>> 
>>>> $conf[mailer][params][host]     smtp.gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> $conf[mailer][params][port]     587
>>>> 
>>>> $conf[mailer][params][localhost]     EMPTY
>>>> 
>>>> * $conf[mailer][params][auth]     Best available authentication
>>>> 
>>>> $conf[mailer][params][username]     my email....
>>>> 
>>>> $conf[mailer][params][password]     my password....
>>>> 
>>>> Further directions to debug this would be appreciated.
>>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> $conf['mailer']['params']['debug'] = true;
>>> 
>>> Test with the traditional view.
>>> 
>>> Jan.
>>> 
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>> 
>> Jan,  this is far from getting better.  I had to send this email via
>> Gmail directly because horde would refuse to send the email, no matter
>> how much I had trimmed it... I am beginning to believe the length of
>> the email has nothing (or very little) to do with the problem (see
>> below).  Attached is the horde log that was generated for an email
>> sent via the dynamic interface and that failed.  I hope the log will
>> help you pinpoint the problem.  I also tried as you suggested to send
>> from the traditional interface, and every thing seems to work without
>> apparent problems.
>> 
>> Somehow it seems to be related to the interface protocol...  I noticed
>> the red popup changes from time to time, with errors such as
>> 
>> "Failed to communicate with the server"
>> "The connection with the server has been lost"
>> "An error occured when communicating with the server"...
>> 
>> Please let me know if I can do more.
> 
> If you actually had taken a look at the logs yourself, you had noticed that the message was sent just fine. So either this was a log from a successful sending, which makes it completely useless, or the messages are sent just fine, even though IMP reports they are not. Probably the latter, because you managed to sent a dozen messages to the list or to me personally.
> Maybe this is bug #10498.
> 
> Jan.
> 
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Sorry about the dozen emails...  I clicked send only twice and cancelled the email to use gmail since imp was apparently not working.

I must say it's getting annoying...

Again sorry for the 12 emails... You can delete 11 of them! ;)