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Feb 25, 2002, 4:06 PM
marcnyc
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Links does NOT send any EMAIL.
I have downloaded Links 2.0 because I wanted to try it and maybe use it for my website but I can't get the sendmail related things to work... When I try to add a link and it says that an email has been sent but I receive no email. The path of my sendmail in the configuration is right so I don't know what the problem can be. Is it possible to let user add links without sending an email?

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Feb 26, 2002, 3:55 PM
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Feb 26, 2002, 3:55 PM
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I have a similar problem, I get this error message in my admin panel when I delete a test link any help:-

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Unable to send rejection message. Reason: No To: field specified.
Script Location : /home01/14479873/public_html/cgi-bin/links/admin/admin.cgi
Perl Version : 5.006001

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Feb 26, 2002, 6:35 PM
marcnyc
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Feb 26, 2002, 6:35 PM
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Actually I do not get any errors at all, on the contrary, the system moves through pages smoothly and it looks like the email has been sent, but I never receive it and I tried many times and I have the right sendmail path and it is not my email account.

Is there any Grossamer people on these forums that can help???
Feb 27, 2002, 5:07 AM
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Feb 27, 2002, 5:07 AM
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Do other scripts send them ok? If not, it may be a server problem. I've had it before where it doesn't seem to like sending to 'forward' accounts. I sent one to my hotmail account, and got it fine. Sent one to my ace-installer.com email addy, and it doesn't arive. Very odd, and I've never really worked out why it does it.

You may want to set up a hotmail account, and try this. You may find what i did.

Hope that helps Smile

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Feb 27, 2002, 10:17 AM
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INDEED it DID work when the address is set to yahoo.com instead of my forwarding domain address webmaster@chaindlk.com... now, that is veeeeeeeeeeery weird, any workaround for this? any idea why this happens? is this my server's fault or the script's fault?

I have one question: is it possible to add something to the content of the email that is sent to the person who did submit the url?
Feb 27, 2002, 10:32 AM
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I'm not really sure why it happens. I thought it was just my servers configuration, but if loads of other people are having the same problem it would appear to be more of a problem with Sendmail. Very weird Crazy

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