very important problem:

I am NOT receiving the Validation email when somebody tries to add a link to the database. My sendmail path and email address are correct. Also, everything when trying to add a link works perfectly, I just do not receive the validation email, which prevents me from validating the link.

After a search, I have found in one thread that one needs to have the Mailer.pm in the $db_lib_path... Could that be the problem?
Eliot, you were the one who wrote that, any suggestions??

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks in advance
Cheers,
Aymeric/

Im not a perl expert but in links.cfg there is a option to send the email confirmation, in $db_email_add = 1;

here is what i have in links.cfg maybe your missing that point.

# Email Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
# NOTE: Be sure to edit the text of the message. It can be found
# in the templates directory: email-add.txt, email-del.txt and
# email-mod.txt respectively.

# Set only ONE of either $db_mail_path which should go to a
# mail program like sendmail, or $db_smtp_server which will use
# a SMTP server. Do not set both at once!

# PATH of sendmail. # SMTP Server
$db_mail_path = '/usr/lib/sendmail -t'; $db_smtp_server = '';

# Email address of the administrator. BE SURE TO SET!
$db_admin_email = 'info@arquired.net';

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?
$db_email_add = 1;

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are modified?
$db_email_modify = 1;

# Log all outgoing messages? Put the full path to a logfile and make sure it
# exists and is writeable (chmod 666 -rw-rw-rw-). This logfile can get pretty
# big!
$db_mailer_log = '';
# 0 = use jump.cgi in the newsletter. 1 = direct_link
$direct_link_newsletter = 0;

Carlos Alcocer
http://www.arquired.net

Huh? Nope...I am not associated with Gossamer Threads. Just volunteer my time to help out users in the forums when I have time.

That is not correct. That variable controls sending out a CONFIRMATION message to the user when the link is VALIDATED. There are no flag/toggle variables out-of-the-box that controls sending VALIDATION messages to the ADMINISTRATOR.

Aymeric

Make sure that your Mailer.pm file is in the directory that you specified for the $db_script_path/$db_lib_path in the links.cfg. The problem could be is that the script is unable to find the Mailer.pm and thus you receive no VALIDATION message.


Regards,

Eliot Lee

When I said that, I meant that you were the one who had written that in the forum, as a reply to someone else. I can't remember the thread though. And I know you help voluntarily, so much and so well....

I will try to do what you said tomorrow morning, see if it works, thank you very much,
Cheers,
Aymeric.

Elliot:

This is what i meant:

might be a silly sugestion but did you change the two lines below "$db_admin_email =" from 0 to 1 like

# Email address of the administrator. BE SURE TO SET!
$db_admin_email = 'Gordon@youtrek.com';

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?
$db_email_add = 1;

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are modified?
$db_email_modify = 1;


thanks.


Carlos Alcocer
http://www.arquired.net

Again those variables ($db_email_add and $db_email_modify) DOES NOT control the EMAIL sent to the Admnistrator when a site is in the Validate database. Those variables ONLY control the emails that are sent to LINK OWNERS when a link is added or modified.

Regards,

Eliot Lee

Eliot, my $db_script_path is correct, since all my other programs using it are working. About the $db_lib_path though, here is how I have it:


# -------------------------------------------------------------
# Extra Paths -- unless you feel the need to rename files, you
# can leave this as is.
# -------------------------------------------------------------
$db_script_url = $db_dir_url . "/admin.cgi"; # Admin script.
$db_header_path = $db_script_path . "/header"; # Place to store header and footers.
$db_footer_path = $db_script_path . "/footer";
$build_search_url = $db_cgi_url . "/search.cgi"; # URL of search script.
$build_add_url = $db_cgi_url . "/add.cgi"; # URL of add script.
$build_modify_url = $db_cgi_url . "/modify.cgi"; # URL of modify script.
$build_jump_url = $db_cgi_url . "/jump.cgi"; # URL of jump script.
$build_email_url = $db_cgi_url . "/subscribe.cgi"; # URL of email update script.
$build_rate_url = $db_cgi_url . "/rate.cgi"; # URL of rate script.
$db_mail_url = $db_dir_url . "/nph-email.cgi"; # URL of admin mass mail script.
$build_css_url = $build_root_url . "/links.css"; # URL to your CSS file.

$db_lib_path = $db_script_path; # PATH of library files.
$db_links_name = "$db_script_path/data/links.db"; # PATH to links database.
$db_spider_name = "$db_script_path/data/spider.db"; # PATH to goFetch spider database.
$db_spidered_name = "$db_script_path/data/spidered.db"; # PATH to goFetch spidered database.
$db_category_name = "$db_script_path/data/categories.db"; # PATH to category database.
$db_valid_name = "$db_script_path/data/validate.db"; # PATH to validation database.
$db_modified_name = "$db_script_path/data/modified.db"; # PATH to modification database.
$db_url_name = "$db_script_path/data/url.db"; # PATH to URL lookup database.
$db_email_name = "$db_script_path/data/email.db"; # PATH to email database.
$db_links_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/linksid.txt"; # PATH to links counter file.
$db_category_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/categoryid.txt"; # PATH to category counter file.
$db_spider_id_file_name = "$db_script_path/data/spiderid.txt"; # PATH to spider id file.
$db_linkcount = "$db_script_path/data/linkcount.txt"; # PATH to spider counter file.
$db_hits_path = "$db_script_path/data/hits"; # PATH to hits directory.
$db_template_path = "$db_script_path/templates"; # PATH to templates.
$db_rates_path = "$db_script_path/data/rates"; # PATH to ratings.
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Shouldn't it be in between " " like all the others? is that my problem?

If that's not it, I'm really stuck.

Thanks,
Aymeric.