RE: Can't use sendmail more than once
I have migrated my site from IIS and Active State to Apache 1.3 and mod_perl on a Windows machine. I use the site to send emails to registered users using Mail::sendmail through our SMTP server (another machine). With Apache I can only send emails once after I start the Apache server, thereafter it tells me it can't connect to the SMTP server. Restarting the Apache server leads to again being able to only send emails once. I've been having similar problems using Mail::Sendmail 0.79 w/Apache 2.0.45 and mod_perl 1.99.10_dev on Windows. It works for a while (generally more than once) and then it can't connect. I haven't tracked it down yet. mma
Re: Can't use sendmail more than once
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Greg Dutkowski wrote: I have migrated my site from IIS and Active State to Apache 1.3 and mod_perl on a Windows machine. I use the site to send emails to registered users using Mail::sendmail through our SMTP server (another machine). With Apache I can only send emails once after I start the Apache server, thereafter it tells me it can't connect to the SMTP server. Restarting the Apache server leads to again being able to only send emails once. Any ideas? After it sends the mail, can you tell if the connection to the smtp server is still open? If so, can you explicitly disconnect from your script? Also, is this a script (or handler) run under mod_perl? If so, does this occur only under mod_perl, or does the same thing occur when mod_perl is disabled and an ordinary cgi script is used? If it is run under mod_perl, are all further server connections blocked after the first mail is sent, or is it just the smtp connection that's blocked? -- best regards, randy kobes
Re: Can't use sendmail more than once
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:45, Greg Dutkowski wrote: I have migrated my site from IIS and Active State to Apache 1.3 and mod_perl on a Windows machine. I use the site to send emails to registered users using Mail::sendmail through our SMTP server (another machine). With Apache I can only send emails once after I start the Apache server, thereafter it tells me it can't connect to the SMTP server. Restarting the Apache server leads to again being able to only send emails once. Any ideas? This is a known problem with mod_perl 1.x on Win32. Sockets only work when you make it single-threaded (ThreadsPerChild 1). Doing that doesn't make a difference in terms of your actual script performance, since mod_perl is already single-threaded on Win32, but it will make images slow. One solution is to serve the images from a separate web server. - Perrin
Re: Can't use sendmail more than once
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:45, Greg Dutkowski wrote: I have migrated my site from IIS and Active State to Apache 1.3 and mod_perl on a Windows machine. I use the site to send emails to registered users using Mail::sendmail through our SMTP server (another machine). With Apache I can only send emails once after I start the Apache server, thereafter it tells me it can't connect to the SMTP server. Restarting the Apache server leads to again being able to only send emails once. Any ideas? This is a known problem with mod_perl 1.x on Win32. Sockets only work when you make it single-threaded (ThreadsPerChild 1). Doing that doesn't make a difference in terms of your actual script performance, since mod_perl is already single-threaded on Win32, but it will make images slow. One solution is to serve the images from a separate web server. Can we add this factoid to http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/troubleshooting.html#Windows_OS_specific_notes ? __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
Re: Can't use sendmail more than once
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 23:17, Stas Bekman wrote: Can we add this factoid to http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/troubleshooting.html#Windows_OS_specific_notes ? Yes. I think Joshua Chamas has a summary of it somewhere, but I can't seem to reach his site or the mod_perl site at the moment for some reason. - Perrin
RE: Can't use sendmail more than once
That's fixed it - I don't server many images - thanks very much! -Original Message- From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2003 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't use sendmail more than once On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:45, Greg Dutkowski wrote: I have migrated my site from IIS and Active State to Apache 1.3 and mod_perl on a Windows machine. I use the site to send emails to registered users using Mail::sendmail through our SMTP server (another machine). With Apache I can only send emails once after I start the Apache server, thereafter it tells me it can't connect to the SMTP server. Restarting the Apache server leads to again being able to only send emails once. Any ideas? This is a known problem with mod_perl 1.x on Win32. Sockets only work when you make it single-threaded (ThreadsPerChild 1). Doing that doesn't make a difference in terms of your actual script performance, since mod_perl is already single-threaded on Win32, but it will make images slow. One solution is to serve the images from a separate web server. - Perrin
