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rvanderh

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civimail on standalone
May 02, 2008, 05:10:34 pm
hi,

I installed the standalone version on my local debian distro via:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Install+2.0+for+Standalone
I made a group and a member of this group and I tried to sent a mailing with civimail. The testmailing was sent , but the mailing itself doesn't arrive. In civimail the testmailing is marked 'scheduled' whereas I checked the box 'Send Immediately'.

I found out that civimail needs postfix etc. installed and a cronjob to call a script to start sending the mailing. I also found an alternative and easier way to arrange this:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Alternative+configuration+with+imap2soap.pl+-+no+Amavis+or+root+access
My first question is: should I use one of these methods, because the standalone version doesn't mention any of these ?

Whatever, I installed the perl-method and did the config. The only thing what puzzled me is what to edit in $SOAP_User and $SOAP_Password. In the manual I read it should match the admin login of drupal of joomla, but I don't use one of these, I use 'standalone'.

Before putting it in a cronjob I just run the script after every testmailing I did.
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imap2soap.pl /PATH/TO/imap2soap.confand it answered without warnings/errors
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imap2soap: Initializing http://dilbert/civicrm/extern/soap.php
imap2soap: Initialization complete
imap2soap: Script completed.
But .. no mail arrives at the users mailbox. Anyone any ideas ?

Thx, Rik
« Last Edit: May 02, 2008, 05:13:08 pm by rvanderh »

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Re: civimail on standalone
May 02, 2008, 06:24:15 pm

I dont think wes / we have tested standalone with civimail, so you are exploring new territory here :)

1. yes u need to use one of the 2 methods to process any incoming mail

2. The SOAP_User / SOAP_Password is the login/password for any user that can access civicrm / civimail. However since standalone uses openID, i'm not exactly sure how this will work.

3. You might also want to check and see if there are any records in: civicrm_mailing_event_queue and civicrm_mailing_event_delivered. That indicates the cron job ran and queued things up

If you do try to push this along, please do report back on any changes you had to make to get this to work

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rvanderh

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Re: civimail on standalone
May 05, 2008, 03:09:30 am
Thx Donald for responding.

Quote from: Donald Lobo on May 02, 2008, 06:24:15 pm
If you do try to push this along, please do report back on any changes you had to make to get this to work
I hope you won't blame me but I rather took this advantage to 'push' my way 'along' Drupal ;) I should have done that much earlier.

Hey .... it works ! Thx.

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Re: civimail on standalone
June 19, 2008, 01:38:00 pm
Yeah, this is something I should report as an issue in Jira. We need to figure out how standalone will work vis a vis the web service login stuff.

Currently when I use CiviMail with standalone, I comment out the code that requires a valid login in the sending script. :P
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