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CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 03, 2010, 09:10:17 am
Hello,

 I'm trying to follow the wiki instructions to set up the return handling, and I'm testing the civimailprocessing php file, but getting invalid username/password. Even though it is the exact same server login and api-key used to make the EmailProcessor function work.

 The solution seemed to have something to do with having entries in the api_key field in a civicrm_contact, but not sure if that needs to be coded, or just a straight password.


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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 03, 2010, 09:44:54 am
Could it be the username/password for the email account? This is configured in CiviCRM Admin → CiviMail → Mail Accounts.
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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 04, 2010, 04:42:31 am
a good suggestion. but I'm going by the wiki at this address:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviMail+Processor

which quotes:

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Once you do this, you can test whether the polling works by visiting CiviCRM-Resource-URL/bin/CiviMailProcessor.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key (with the bold parts replaced by your site's CiviCRM Resource URL, credentials pair of a user with CiviMail access and your site's key).

Which does not specify really, but says "of a user with CiviMail access".

Thanks, though.

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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 04, 2010, 05:08:30 am
You are right that the cron job needs such credentials.

I was asking about a separate issue. If you properly configured the email account in CiviCRM Admin → CiviMail → Mail Accounts.
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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 04, 2010, 06:41:01 am
here's the really interesting this. I'm using the crontask Email Processor, which brings emails from the account in Mail Settings and turns them into contacts. That works fine, so I assume the mail settings are fine.

I'm stumped.

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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 04, 2010, 06:46:13 am
Not sure, but to debug, perhaps try a different username/password combo--make one with the necessary rights
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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 07, 2010, 11:25:17 am
Quote from: rchapman on June 03, 2010, 09:10:17 am
I'm trying to follow the wiki instructions to set up the return handling, and I'm testing the civimailprocessing php file, but getting invalid username/password. Even though it is the exact same server login and api-key used to make the EmailProcessor function work.

First, what you need is username, password (of a Joomla user account able to access CiviMail) and CiviCRM site key triple. Second, if you call it with wget or curl make sure you quote the path in the shell (otherwise the ampersands in the URL will be interpreted as shell ‘and’ operators).
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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 09, 2010, 07:31:39 am
Thanks Piotr for the help. I guess my question is what "able to access CiviMail" is? We use civimail, but it's possible I haven't set up the users properly, and I'm having a hard time finding any more information. Any suggestions on where I set 'access to civimail'?

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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 10, 2010, 03:51:02 am
Quote from: rchapman on June 09, 2010, 07:31:39 am
I guess my question is what "able to access CiviMail" is?

In Joomla I think it means an account with access to the admin backend – i.e., a pair of credentials (username+password) which can be used to login to your CiviCRM instance and change CiviMail settings.
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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 11, 2010, 08:20:04 am
I am having similar issue in Drupal as I try to run civimail.cronjob.php or schedule the cronjob.

I have created
Drupal login account =  mailprocess
I have defined a new role called 'admin role'.  It has all CiviCRM permissions.
Specifically, it has access to CiviCRM. With this account I am able to edit CiviMail -> Mail Accounts
This drupal is running under sites/default/

In Shell, I have run:
php public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php -sdefault -umailprocess -pmypassword

I get error:  ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file

I have tried it with Drupal's admin user and same result.

What am I missing?

The cronjob has also been scheduled and i get back an email with similar error:
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=9e63a4f9c1324c3e246f5c9115632c51; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-type: text/html

ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file

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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 11, 2010, 08:32:49 am
Hi,

Some differences with how I use it :

1) I run it from the civicrm folder:
cd /public_html/site/all/modules;php bin/civimail.cronjob.php

2) Is you config for civicrm set in /sites/default or another one ?
I put my config into sites/www.example.org, hence -swww.example.org

3) I have a settings_location.php in the civicrm folder.

Is any of these useful ?

How, and unrelated to your server but good, run as nice -19 php  instead of php

Lastly, you might want to read The book, available in all the good libraries for a very low price and free at the nearest interweb: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/SystemConfiguration

Hopefully more detailed than the wiki ?

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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 11, 2010, 10:37:08 am
interestingly, I tried running the crontask instead of testing the URL first. That went fine. No error. So why would using the URL result in 'invalid user' when the shell wouldn't? Oh well. Now I know it's working at least.

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Re: CivicMailProcessor username/password
June 11, 2010, 11:18:14 am
Thanks Xavier for your note.

The paths are fine and I am running from default.

I do not have settings_location.php.  Let me know if this is required.

The only way I have got the mass email and bounce processing to work is with
wget command

wget -O - -q -t 1 --post-data='name=mailprocess&pass=seol-lzprm42amvpsyc&key=yoursiteinstallkey' http://www.example.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php

wget -O - -q -t 1 --post-data='name=mailprocess&pass=seol-lzprm42amv-psyc&key=yoursiteinstallkey' http://www.example.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/EmailProcessor.php
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