[pmwiki-users] Emailed notifications of wiki updates are stuck and spamming me

Doyce Testerman doyce.testerman at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 13:17:22 CDT 2006


Perfect. Just exactly the fix I needed. Thanks!

On 8/2/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:27:14AM -0600, Doyce Testerman wrote:
> >    A few months ago, I (finally) updated my PMWiki install to a 2.xversion
> >    from a 1.x version.  Everything's going fantastic, except for one
> >    problem.  If I leave email notifications on, I get an 'updated Wiki'
> email
> >    message about every 20 seconds or so -- the only change listed in the
> >    email is the last change I made before updating the wiki to 2.x --
> the
> >    email never contains any of the current updates, and doesn't ever
> stop
> >    sending this one bouncing notification.
> >
> >    I've had to shut off email notifications as a result, but doing so
> doesn't
> >    stop this process from running -- as soon as I turn on email
> notification
> >    again, this starts right back up.
> >
> >    I'm sure that what happened is that I replaced the 1.x code with the
> 2.x
> >    stuff while the update process was still running and something just
> >    started looping, but I'm at a loss as to how I'd *stop* it.  Any help
> much
> >    appreciated.
>
> Try removing any .mailposts file from the wiki.d/ directory.  It appears
> that
> PmWiki is having trouble doing that, or writing the file.
>
> If that doesn't do it, then there's something else going on.
>
> But if you're updated to the latest version of PmWiki,  you might want
> to switch to using NotifyLists instead of MailPosts anyway. (NotifyLists
> is much more robust and has more capabilities.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pm
>



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