I will go back through my notes and document everything that I did when I have a chance. But, the thing is I don’t think there is that much that I changed from the original install. I am running the beta version of the client and server, and we forced it to only try PSK500 and PSK500R. Other than that I think the difference is that I have a better understanding of what is going on in a session, and we tweaked audio levels on Signalinks. I will go back through my notes…
We did have a much better success rate yesterday, however, after sending many messages through the server (both inbound and outbound) the gentleman doing the testing eventually started seeing the “Sorry, wrong password” message. The frustrating part of that is that we were very careful to not change anything on either the client or server. I have wondered if that is a problem with signal levels corrupting a password sent over RF, but the user authentication information (both SMTP and POP) are stored on the server at this point. I am going to try to run tcpdump during some transactions today to see if I can catch one that fails.
I remain very excited about the possibilities and the progress we have made, and I very much appreciate the help from the list.
From: pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pskmail-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bernard Dekok
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 1:20 PM
To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pskmail] Re: FW: Re: Problem With Connection Reliability on New VHF Server
Dan,
Once you have it all figured out, please post your Ubuntu Linux server setup and required additional dependencies on the Wiki.
The manuals are out of date....
No wonder interested newcomers give up after a while.
It should not be this hard to make any ham software work.
Hams have short attention spans, and they will move on to the next attraction when things in the present attraction get too hard, confusing etc.etc.
I.e. they lose interest quickly.
My hats off to the development team with this excellent concept and software.
But we have to work on the user-friendliness of PSKMail....really.
KC9SGV
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Dan Ozment <dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you for your help, Roger! In the eyes of this new user you are all experts! I apologize if I am abusing the list with so many questions. Rein, I have printed copies of the 1.4.0 client and 1.0.34 server manuals in front of me, and I assure you they are becoming tattered and torn from use. I will look for manuals for later versions to see if I need an update. I appreciate your help and your patience.
I still think I have a situation where I can connect, send mail, download mail, and then try again later and get the "wrong password" message whether or not I have a session password. If I can understand that I think I will be happy. After the tweaks we made yesterday performance and reliability is phenomenally better.
Dan
