[pskmail] Re: FW: Re: Problem With Connection Reliability on New VHF Server
- From: "Dan Ozment" <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:44:19 -0500
Since I cleared the database and configuration file I have not added a session
password. Does it need to change for every session?
-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of G6CKR
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:38 AM
To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pskmail] Re: FW: Re: Problem With Connection Reliability on New VHF
Server
Just a thought, are you using a session password and not changing it every time
maybe ?
73 Roger G6CKR
On 27/02/12 16:28, Dan Ozment wrote:
> One update for this... I just connected and sent an email. It appears to
> have sent correctly. I then did a QTC to retrieve headers, and I got the
> "Sorry , wrong password" message. I retrieved headers and email from this
> account within the past hour, and nothing has changed in the configuration.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Ozment [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 10:57 AM
> To: 'pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [pskmail] Re: FW: Re: Problem With Connection Reliability
> on New VHF Server
>
> Thanks for the info. It is looking much better this morning. I did a
> more testing Initially, I was still getting the "wrong password" message
> when I tried to send or retrieve email. I wondered if I had corrupted the
> configuration during all of my testing. So, I tried the following...
>
> 1) I renamed the configuration.xml file on the client
> 2) I copied the rflink_users.db.template file to rflink_users.db. (I
> believe I had accidentally added records with null or spaces as values, and I
> was trying to clear those out).
> 3) I restarted the server and client, and reconfigured the settings on the
> client.
>
> After that I was able to send a message, retrieve headers, and retrieve
> messages (SUCCESS!).
>
> We tried again from another client (after removing the configuration.xml file
> on it as well), and had the same result initially. He tried to send another
> file, and we never saw it come across to the server. After several tries he
> once again got the "Sorry, wrong password" message. What could cause that?
> Should we continue to try to send when it happens?
>
>
> This other user has had a situation where he would try to send a message, and
> we would see old messages coming across. He once sent a message with an
> invalid email address (he left off the domain name). The server replied
> that it wasn't a properly formatted message, and he got the response. He
> cleared his outbox multiple times, but this message kept repeating. We
> noticed files in the Outbox, Outpending, and Pending folders in his
> /user/username/pskmail directory. We deleted those files, and that seemed to
> stop the send attempts with the bad email address.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rein Couperus
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 2:18 AM
> To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pskmail] Re: FW: Re: Problem With Connection Reliability on
> New VHF Server
>
> Dan,
>
> the ARQ system also works if there is no info for transmission. This is
> necessary because the system is quasi full duplex... if there is noo traffice
> for a certain period the server will disconnect.
>
> You have to do the server update only 1x per server, the info is cashed in
> the data base.
>
> The password is an extra session password, which you set in the user data in
> preferences.
> You have to explicitly set it after you update the mail record, as it uses
> your pop password for verification (the server wants to know it is you
> setting the password).
>
> You set the password with entering :SETPASSWORD. Wait until you have the
> authorization OK from the server....
>
> You are doing well...
>
> Rein EA/PA0R/M
>
>
>
>
>> Maybe I'm over-analyzing, then. So, the back and forth chatter is ok? Not
>> being familiar with the application I had suspected the chatter to only
>> happen occasionally or when I am telling it to do something.
>>
>> I just did another test.
>>
>> Ping - successful
>> Beacon - successful
>> Connect @ PSK500 -successful
>> Update Server - successful
>> Get IAC Forcast -successful
>> Send Email - Sorry, wrong password
>> QTC - Sorry, wrong password
>> Get Fleetcodes - successful
>>
>>
>> The update server is successful probably no more than 50% of the time. I
>> have deleted the user from the database on the server and did an update from
>> the client. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. I have successfully
>> sent email. Sometimes it work, other times I get the "Sorry, wrong password"
>> message.
>>
>> Can you tell me which password is not being accepted? The SMTP password on
>> the server is the same as when I started (and I have sent email
>> successfully). The POP password in the client is correct.
>>
>> I appreciate your help, and I apologize if I'm asking questions I should be
>> able to answer myself. The application is very interesting, and we're
>> excited about being able to offer it over VHF in our area for general use
>> and for ARES use.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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