helruss Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 I'm running OSx 10.2.8 and Retrospect 6.0.193. I am trying to get an email each morning with the status of the overnight backup (iMac to Maxtor drive). Based on a previous message here I'm trying to use the Python Retrospect Event Handler to generate an email using Powermail (Ver 4). Not working - I get the file macmail.message in /tmp but no email. I've set debug to true in macmail.py but do not get a logfile in /tmp - which I guess indicates it's not getting that far. I am not an applescripter but can edit and make changes where needed. Does anyone have any suggestions where I might look for the problem? No suggestion too trivial... thanks in advance. Helen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 hi hel, the smtp server does not really matter, powermail, sendmail, exchange-->they all use the same smtp protocal which is pretty simple. in fact, it is so simple you could type it in yourself if you'd like. try this: 1) open up a telnet client (in OS X open the terminal and type 'telnet') 2) type 'open <name of smtp server or ip address you are using> 25'. for example: 'open myawsomesmtpserver.com 25' you should get a reply like this: 220 myawsomesmtpserver.com ESMTP Server (Powermail) ready 3) type 'helo me', and you should get a reply: 250 OK from here you can send an email if you are daring, if you get this far your email notification should be working. hint: do this from the computer running Retrospect. if you'd like to check into this more here is a good link: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9700/ur0504l/ there are many more out there in the googleplex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helruss Posted February 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 Thanks waltr, have now done that and it works .. so the problem is in the scripts somewhere ... off to check further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 hi hel, you can post the top part of your applescript if you'd like. change the names of your server and email to protect the innocent..... also, besides setting debug to 'true', you haven't modified that file have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helruss Posted February 2, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 Quote: also, besides setting debug to 'true', you haven't modified that file have you? No I hadn't .. but I've been tinkering today and I think the problem is the python version - I changed 'true' to '1' and hey presto ... it works - at least for my little test Retrospect script. If I change it back to a string it fails again. I'll wait for my overnight backup to email me to be completely confident - but I think it's that simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltr Posted February 2, 2006 Report Share Posted February 2, 2006 hi hel, interesting. what version of python are you running? also, what if you try 0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helruss Posted February 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Quote: interesting. what version of python are you running? also, what if you try 0? Python 2.2 If I put DEBUG=0 --> no debug log file in /tmp My regular backup sent me a message this morning at 0120. Seems to have been a simple but obscure problem. Thanks for the replies. Helen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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