[RAS] [RePEc-run] Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

[Christian Zimmermann]

On Sat, 30 May 2009, Thomas Krichel wrote:

>  Christian Zimmermann writes
>
>> We are in deep shit. It turns out not a single confirmation email got
>> sent, as not a single one got confirmed.
>
>  I got plenty of confirmation email to the authors account. THe
>  problem does not appear to be sending the emails.

The seems to get blocked at various places. Not all, as I now found some 
confirmed new accounts. But it really looks like the emails get blocked. 
We never had a confirmation rate in the order of 20%, by very far.

>
>> It looks like I will be spending the whole day resending emails and
>> fixing things, but I cannot touch the email configuration.
>>
>> The RePEc Author Service is also overloaded with god knows what. I will
>> also have to go through all processes there and see what they are doing.
>
>  On any of my services,  I hold the crontab in etc/crontab. I must
>  have activated that. If aras to nebka works differentyl, then
>  the file etc/crontab should contain a note to that effect.

That seems clumsy. What about simply using the crontab default editor?

>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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