Adventures in posting by email

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mstublefield Posted: Mon, Apr 23 2007 6:06 PM

Just over a week ago, I'd hardly done more than glanced at IIS, SQL Express, SMTP, and had never heard of Community Server. Now, I have been immersed in a setup process for around 40+ hours of trying to get a server set up so faculty can use the forum as a discussion board, posting and receiving updates via email.

Much to my amazement, we've gotten it to the point of new posts on the forum sending emails, and I feel that we're very close to having CS accept inbound messages and post them... but we're still getting an error. This error is displayed if I run the communityserver.mail.processor.console.exe via a command prompt when I press a key to exit the program. Presumably, it's displayed in the logs when running as a service.

C:\Program Files\Telligent\Community Server Mail Gateway>communityserver.mail.processor.console.exe
Press any key to exit...

2007-04-23 16:51:07,397 [3772] ERROR [] - Error occurred in Monitor.ReceiveInboundMessage
Exception: System.Messaging.MessageQueueException
Message:
Source: System.Messaging
   at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.AsynchronousRequest.End()
   at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.EndAsyncOperation(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.EndReceive(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at CommunityServer.Mail.Processor.Components.Monitor.?(Object , ReceiveCompletedEventArgs )

2007-04-23 16:51:07,429 [3620] ERROR [] - Error occurred in Monitor.ReceiveComplete
Exception: System.Messaging.MessageQueueException
Message:
Source: System.Messaging
   at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.AsynchronousRequest.End()
   at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.EndAsyncOperation(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.Messaging.MessageQueue.EndReceive(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at CommunityServer.Mail.Processor.Components.Monitor.?(Object , ReceiveCompletedEventArgs )


C:\Program Files\Telligent\Community Server Mail Gateway>

 

Since I'm about to leave work, I thought I'd toss this out there and see if anyone had any ideas about what is causing this and/or how to fix it. Thanks in advance for your dedication and hard work.

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Ugh, and right after I posted I had this link emailed to me. Looks like I've got something new to try in the morning.

 http://communityserver.org/forums/t/483942.aspx

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Let us know if that doesn't work out for you.

In CS 2007, we no longer use MSMQ, so this should no longer be an issue with it. 

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cmaconi replied on Fri, Jun 22 2007 3:42 PM

I am looking to have the system post by incoming email (essentially, I want all messages going to a specified ListServ to get submitted as posts on my site).  Were you (or anybody else, for that matter) able to get this going?

 Your help is greatly appreciated!

mstublefield:
I feel that we're very close to having CS accept inbound messages and post them



 

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I did, but with the newer version ofcommunity server. Upgrading to 2007 solved all my woes with next to noconfiguration. I did everything through the GUI and web interface and it workedbrilliantly.

 

MatthewStublefield

CentralizedUser Support Specialist

Missouri State University

 


From: cmaconi[mailto:bounce-cmaconi@communityserver.org]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:46PM
To: Stublefield, Matthew
Subject: Re: [CS.Forums]Adventures in posting by email

 

I amlooking to have the system post by incoming email (essentially, I want allmessages going to a specified ListServ to get submitted as posts on mysite).  Were you (or anybody else, for that matter) able to get thisgoing?

 Yourhelp is greatly appreciated!

mstublefield:

I feel that we're very close to having CS accept inbound messages andpost them




 



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cmaconi replied on Fri, Jun 29 2007 2:49 AM

Are you saying that CS 2007 supports posting via incoming email "out of the box", or do you have your own code to do so that works more effectively with 2007?

Again, your help is greatly appreciated!

Chris

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It is somewhat out of the box.  The Mail Gateway components are built into CS, however you need to run an external Windows service that does the actual downloading of the email.  Since a website is never guaranteed to be running, using it to do that kind of work wouldn't be good.

Even with CS 2.x, you never had to do any of your own coding to support posting via email. 

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I tried and tried with 2.x and couldn’t get it to work. 40 hoursin one week I messed with it with no luck. The issue may have been exacerbatedby the fact that CS was running in a VM.

 

Windows Server 2003 has SMTP support, but I ended up using athird party application for email. The server is production level withredundancy, so we weren’t worried about downtime ;-)

 

From: Ken Robertson[mailto:bounce-ken@communityserver.org]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:18 AM
To: Stublefield, Matthew
Subject: Re: [CS.Forums] RE: Adventures in posting by email

 

It is somewhat out of the box.  The Mail Gateway components are builtinto CS, however you need to run an external Windows service that does theactual downloading of the email.  Since a website is never guaranteed tobe running, using it to do that kind of work wouldn't be good.

Even with CS 2.x, you never had to do any of your own coding to supportposting via email. 



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I apologize if you had any issues.  Did you contact support regarding any of them?  Other than this post, which you had indicated you had the answer, I don't recall seeing any other requests.
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Yeah, I had phone contact with the sales rep we were dealingwith. Since I started working on the project just a week or two before 2007came out, he recommended I just install 2007. It worked, and we were happy J

 

From: Ken Robertson[mailto:bounce-ken@communityserver.org]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:39 AM
To: Stublefield, Matthew
Subject: Re: [CS.Forums] RE: RE: Adventures in posting by email

 

I apologize if you had any issues.  Did you contactsupport regarding any of them?  Other than this post, which you hadindicated you had the answer, I don't recall seeing any other requests.


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Great.  If you have any other questions related to Mail Gateway, the best place for them would be in the Gold Support : Gateways forum.  It focuses on our "Gateway" products like Mail Gateway, News Gateway, and FTP Gateway.
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