No Emails?
J1mmy - June 11, 2008 - 23:54
| Project: | Comment Notify |
| Version: | 5.x-1.6 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
I've been getting no emails after triggering the module. What does the script use to send out emails?

#1
Did you patch the comment.module file?
This module uses the standard drupal_mail to send emails. There is a chance that you are caught by a specific postfix configuration which doesn't send mails (see the patch in #211682: Patch: Emails not being sent for postfix ).
#2
I haven't patched it, no. How exactly am I supposed to implement the patch, should I copy and paste that new code and replace everything in the .PATCH file, or..?
#3
There are instructions on how to do this in the INSTALL.txt
If those are unclear, please respond back here with what you tried and what happened.
#4
Same issue but I'm using sendmail, not postfix. Do I need to patch? Or is the latest module already patched?
#5
The file doesn't appear to give a detailed set of instructions for patching the file, is there any alternative to what's been given here?
#6
It is in INSTALL.txt - it says:
So...please, if you have followed those steps or are confused by them respond with the exact steps you took and I will try to help you.
#7
Right, I have opened comment_notify_patch_to_comment.patch and comment.module the files on Dreamweaver, but neither of them display any instructions. The install.txt says I should take the action is shows - but nothing seems to be there, just code.
By looking at the link, it appears that this needs to be done through some sort of command line application?
#8
Yes, you should read/follow the documentation at http://drupal.org/patch/apply which explains, extensively, how these files are to be used.
#9
How long should something like this take? I'm not familiar with command line interfaces, so its probably going to take sometime learning it beforehand, for this task.
#10
It's a fairly urgent requirement, can I not get someone to do this at a sensible price?
#11
Sure, you can find people to do this at http://drupal.org/paid-services
#12
Excellent, would you happen to know how long something like this would take and how much I can expect to be charged?
#13
@j1mmy This takes about 1 minute if you'd done it before and 30 minutes to an hour if you've never done it. I honestly think you should take a moment and read those pages before just throwing in the towel.
if you do hire someone I'd expect they'd charge you a minimum of 30 minutes work maybe a full hour due to having to figure out your server, login information, where files are stored, etc. etc. The patch takes less than a minute but the other work around it takes longer. My guess $50-$100 although maybe someone would do it for $25.
#14
Well, I would be happy to it myself, but that page isn't written from a beginner perspective. I might be able to do it if I had step by step instructions. I mean, I downloaded one of the software mentioned there, Eclipse, and I couldn't really make any sense out of it.
That page is thorough enough for someone who hasn't heard of this 'patching' until now.
#15
This seems fixed to me since we identified the cause of the problem was not patching the file.
#16
Just before this is closed, something happened.
I didn't make any modifications at all, but I found a notification email in my inbox, does this mean I don't need to patch it. Now the thing is, how do i know when the email are due to be sent out next. Do the emails go out in a batch at the certain time? Can this be modified if it does?
#17
Nevermind...
#18
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.