[TYPO3-english] directMail doesn't send mails and locks itself

[Andreas Becker]

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Andi

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:42 PM, <hinterindien at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try to configure directMail, but mails get sent only erratically.
>
> I have:
> - typo3 4.5 running on linux
> - installed directMail, created a dmail-Folder
> - activated scheduler: directMail task to run every five minutes
> - created a recipient list of type "normal list" with two valid
> test-email-adressess in it.
> - configured "from_email" and "from_name" via directMail->Configuration,
> set format to "text-only"
> - created a Quickmail (here: first strange thing: from_name is not the same
> as given in configuration and as shown in page TS-Config)
> - sent this quickmail to recipient-list
>
> What happens:
> - directMail->status tells my, Cronjob is ok, mail is planned
> - after 5 minutes (first run of directMail task) status tells me, that
> sending mails has started at minute 5 but Conjob-status changes to "Warning"
> - if I now open the scheduler to see what happened, I get a fatal php-Error
> (see end of mail for full printout of error)
> - after 5 more minutes, i can open the scheduler without error (I assume,
> the next run of directMail Task has corrected the problem). Here, I now get
> the information "directMail task: failed to execute successfull." Now, there
> is the lock in  typo3temp/tx_directmail_cron.lock, and nothing more happens.
>
>
> I checked:
> - emails can be sent from the maschine.
> - scheduler test-Task works without problems (maybe it uses another mailing
> machine?)
> - I did the same on the server with the same outcome.
> - I succeded serveral times to send the mails by doing things that I can't
> reproduce anymore (like deleting the lock manually, deleting the scheduler
> task, opening a new one and so on...)
>
> So I suppose, it is maybe a question of misconfiguration.... but where? I
> read through the whole direct-mail documentation, but I didnt find
> anyhing...
>
> Maybe, someone has a hint for me!
>
> Thanks in advance
> Nicolai
>
>
> PS: It would generally be nice to have the whole documentation in a wiki -
> while digging into a new extension, it would be easy to add helpful
> information for others...
>
>
> Open Questions:
> The is a configuration in directMail (via EM) "Interval of the cronjob
> [cronInt]". How does this interact with the cron-Command given for
> directMail Task in the scheduler?
>
>
> ----- php-Error -----
> PHP Fatal error:  tx_scheduler_Module::listTasks() [<a
> href='tx-scheduler-module.listtasks'>tx-scheduler-module.listtasks</a>]: The
> script tried to execute a method or access a property of an incomplete
> object. Please ensure that the class definition
> &quot;Swift_RfcComplianceException&quot; of the object you are trying to
> operate on was loaded _before_ unserialize() gets called or provide a
> __autoload() function to load the class definition  in
> /var/www/ysdev/typo3_src-4.5.3/typo3/sysext/scheduler/mod1/index.php on line
> 1154
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