sendmail through On-Rev server

Paul Hibbert paulhibbert at mac.com
Sat Oct 25 22:05:32 EDT 2014


Thank you Mike, Andrew and Peter,

I did end up going with a suggestion from Peter Wood using Rebol, with some help from Peter I now have a working option.

Paul

On Oct 25, 2014, at 7:05 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used sendmail on diesel a couple weeks ago. It was SLOW, but it worked.
> (I set up a stack here to post 61 sets of email data to an on-rev script,
> one at a time, with small delay between, and the server would hit sendmail
> to send em out.)  Kinda sounds like diesel either has a hardware problem,
> or something isn't releasing memory. If you tried a bunch of times
> previously, and the shell call to sendmail hung its possible that there are
> a bunch of zombie processes that have consumed the available memory.
> (might set a small script that runs ps to see whats running from your
> account, though don't remember off the top of my head what switches to
> pass.. THink -ef might work)
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Andrew Kluthe <andrew at ctech.me> wrote:
> 
>> Postmarkapp.com, someone on here has a lib for it. But I don't remember
>> who.
>> On Oct 24, 2014 11:00 PM, "Paul Hibbert" <paulhibbert at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> After several hours of frustration, searching and trying, then more
>>> searching and trying I've finally come to the conclusion that sendmail is
>>> not working on Diesel.
>>> 
>>> I have already tried the LiveCode lesson, the files from splash21 and
>>> troz.net along with an amended version from the forums. I did have this
>>> working fine a couple of years ago, so I resurrected some old files and
>>> tried them, still no joy.
>>> 
>>> After the last couple of attempts I finally saw this error:
>>> /usr/sbin/sendmail: error while loading shared libraries:
>> libselinux.so.1:
>>> failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory
>>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure I can't do anything to fix a memory allocation error, so
>>> the ball is back in RR's court, hopefully DW can figure this out if he
>> ever
>>> gets some spare time, I have informed RR, but I know the On-Rev servers
>> are
>>> not high on their priority list, so I don't expect a quick fix.
>>> 
>>> So, in the meantime, does anybody else have any useful tricks for sending
>>> an email from a server? Preferably ones that don't use sendmail or the
>>> Linux mail command (that doesn't work also).
>>> 
>>> TIA
>>> 
>>> Paul
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