[pskmail] Re: FW: Re: Problem With Connection Reliability on New VHF Server
- From: G6CKR <radio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:01:42 +0000
Since I may have muddied the waters, Rein can you confirm that the same
session password is valid for more that one session as I seem to have
miss-understood how a session password should work.
73 Roger G6CKR
On 27/02/12 16:51, Rein Couperus wrote:
> you don't have to change the session password, as it is secret...
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> Rein
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>> 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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