since upgrade to 10.1 email notification with two addresses fails

[System Enabler 701]

Hi everybody,

when we upgraded to 10.1 email notification stopped working though testing the email settings (button at Retrospect's settings section) works perfectly.

I tested a lot and found the problem might be with the "To:"-address(es): Everytime we filled the field with our (formerly perfectly working) two mail-addresses, the log shows error -597( mail server not found). Each address used separately works, instead.

But again: Testing the email settings with both addresses filled in works.

May anybody confirm this? Is this a bug?

Regards,

Olaf

[David W Lee]

Re: To address(es): Everytime we filled the field with our (formerly perfectly working) two mail-addresses, the log shows error -597( mail server not found)

 

So far we can't reproduce this issue.

 

- Other than those generated by "Send Test E-mail", are you not getting any email notifications at all in this case?

- If you restart the Engine and then restart Console, do the E-mail preferences look correct while still getting no email?

- Please include screenshot showing the E-mail preferences screen while the cursor is in the "To address(es):" field showing how the first address is separated from the second.

[System Enabler 701]

Too bad, you can't reproduce our problem. Perhaps my answers and screenshots may get us any further.

 

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are you not getting any email notifications at all in this case?

 

No. Neither e-mail-address got a new message then. The only confirmation of Retrospect was trying to send e-mails is in its logs

 

Unfortunately, the logs didn't get more detailed with increased "SetNetworkingLogging"-value of "retro.ini" from 3 to 7.

 

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do the E-mail preferences look correct while still getting no email?

 

Yes, they do. Even after a restart of the RetroEngine they look exactly like they did before we upgraded.

 

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showing how the first address is separated from the second.

 

The separator didn't change from before the upgrade: It's a comma without leading or following blank.

 

Any idea?

[David W Lee]

Thanks. We can reproduce it now. Can you please try the workaround of using semicolon (without leading or following space) instead of comma?

[System Enabler 701]

David,

 

thank you for your support. Changing to semicolon brings us back to business. It works again.

 

Thanks a lot and best regards from Hamburg,

Olaf

[David W Lee]

Thanks for helping confirming the workaround. We are working on fixing it such that what used to work should continue to work.

[dsadams]

I am also having this problem with a single email address. I have tried putting a semi-colon before and after the address, but this does not fix the problem. This started with the 10.1 upgrade. I can send an test message from the preference window, just not email from the backups.

 

Thanks

Don

[robock]

Same problem here: Retrospect does not send mails.

Mail settings are correct, test mail arrives, but no mails are sent after backup.

[kiddailey]

To also chime in with dsadams and robock -- since upgrading to 10.1.0 (221), I no longer receive email notifications and see the following error in my log files:

 

"E-mail notification failed: error -597 ( mail server not found)"

 

 

I am using a single email address.  The information is correct and did not change from my 10.0 version, which worked correctly.  When I do a DNS lookup with the mail server domain copy/pasted, I get the IP address as expected.  I am also able to login with the same credentials supplied in Retrospect with my mail application.

 

The odd part is that if I click the "Send Test E-mail" button in the preference, it works fine.  It only fails with the error I mentioned during script execution.