mailhandler disappearing posts

By jclift on 1 Feb 2003 at 23:17 UTC

Hi All, I'm looking for some help with Mailhandler. I've got Drupal 4.1 installed on Red Hat 8.0 using the standard Apache/PHP setup that RH installs. Drupal seems to work fine. I've got a working mailbox which Mailhandler contacts OK. Mailhandler seems to identify messages correctly, and reports the correct number of messages back when you run retrieve on the admin page. Mailhandler also deletes the messages in the POP3 mailbox as it is supposed to. Only problem - the messages can;t be found anywhere in my drupal installation. Can anyone offer a possible explanation, hint, solution, rap on knuckles for obvious mistake?

TIA

John

Comments

...already searched the forums

jclift commented 1 February 2003 at 23:18

btw, I already searched threough the forums for an answer to this.

check the watchdog

moshe weitzman commented 2 February 2003 at 00:50

what does your Admin -> Site Monitoring say? it will contain error messages, or messages about newly published blog nodes. if you successfully created nodes, check the Admin -> Content Management page for links.

please keep playing with this, and reporting bugs as needed.

Watchdog gives error

jclift commented 2 February 2003 at 14:46

I assume you mean Watchdog? The Watchdog link gives the following error when I try it:

user error: Got error 28 from table handler
query: SELECT w.*, u.name, u.uid FROM watchdog w LEFT JOIN users u ON w.uid = u.uid ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1000 in /var/www/html/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 69.

There are no mailhandler-originated nodes appearing in the Content Management section. Manually entered nodes appear fine in both the homepage and in Content Management.

FYI, I did have drupal working perfectly on a Wndows/Apache setup. However, I don't want to use Windows. I couldn't find a way to automate mail pickup (a la Cron), and I want to learn more about Linux anyway.