Comment 1 Ryan Abel 2008-06-18 19:11:04 UTC

Confirmed by quite a few people in #maemo

Comment 2 Niels Breet 2008-06-18 21:44:25 UTC

Ferenc is on it. The mailer has been disabled for now, until we find out why
the database wasn't updated.

Comment 3 Andre Klapper 2008-06-20 12:12:59 UTC

So the users' messages on the mailing list that this problem has stopped are
only because we disabled the mailer? Hmm, keeping this open then...

Comment 4 Dave Neary 2008-06-30 16:14:12 UTC

Hi,

Anyone know what happened here? I only sent the mail once, but I'd like to know
whether there's a DB issue, or an issue with my announcement (so I don't make
the same mistake again next time).

Dave.

Comment 5 Ferenc Szekely 2008-06-30 16:53:28 UTC

Not entirely sure, but I suspect it is a GForge problem. Your announcement was
just fine, but the mass-mailing functionality is disabled now on garage. I did
not yet have the time to investigate the root cause of this.

Comment 6 Andre Klapper 2008-07-01 01:55:30 UTC

Not high priority currently as per last comment.

Comment 7 Quim Gil 2008-07-02 14:10:17 UTC

Ferenc has committed this bug to the Sprint2. Changing priority to High.

Comment 8 Quim Gil 2008-07-04 01:19:16 UTC

Hum, it would be good to send _one_ announcement about the Maemo Summit
throught this system...

Comment 9 Andre Klapper 2008-07-14 14:25:25 UTC

Ferenc, any news here? :-/

Comment 10 Ferenc Szekely 2008-07-16 17:10:39 UTC

fixed. 

the massmail cron job of gforge had a bug and it never updated the massmail
table properly. so whenever the job was started by cron the system thought that
there are recipients who did not receive the mail yet form the previous batch.

anybody willing to test it ;)

Comment 11 Quim Gil 2008-07-16 17:26:38 UTC

Me! Can I send an announcement about the Maemo Summit? Still yesterday people
like penguinbait or gnuite didn't know what was going on.

I can do it right now if you are checking the cron and can stop the mailing if
we get a second wave.

Comment 12 Niels Breet 2008-07-16 19:48:44 UTC

The bug is still present. Everybody should at least receive the summit mail
twice. I have disabled the mass-mailer in cron for now.

Comment 13 Quim Gil 2008-07-16 19:50:53 UTC

Considering that we are going to use this service once a month at most, I
propose to close this bug as wontfix and just do the manual ON --> SEND --> OFF
every time we have something to say.

Comment 14 Ferenc Szekely 2008-07-16 21:06:24 UTC

the locking mechanism of the massmail script is buggy too. sending out ~13000
mails takes some longer than 1 hr, the time between 2 iterations of the cron
job. the locking supposed to make sure that there is only one instance of the
script running at a time. checking how to fix that too..

Comment 15 Ferenc Szekely 2008-07-16 22:50:12 UTC

for some reason the 'new' gforge which we installed a month (or so) ago did not
have the fix for the broken cron locking mechanism. i found the fix in gforge's
own svn repo. the massmailer seems to behave nicely now.

there can be multiple instances running of the massmail script, but only one
can do 'damage' at a time. all the others will have to wait until the 1st one
in the queue finished its job. and this first one will take care of the
database update properly, which was my 1st fix earlier today... i mark it
fixed, but we have to test it in 'real life' obviously. next announcement
please :)