Email not working (Bug #425)
Description
I have been using auto multiple choice for years, but I recently set it up on a new computer running Arch. Almost everything is working fine, but when I went to email the annotated quizzes a dialogue box pops up that says "0 message(s) has been sent" with no other output. I double checked my sendmail path, which is /usr/bin/msmtp (this is how I have set up AMC previously). If I go to the terminal and type "echo "hello" | /usr/bin/msmtp joseph.stover758@gmail.com" it sends the email just fine, so I don't think it is a problem with the way the email is set up. If I try typing "auto-multiple-choice mailing" in the terminal I get the following output
String found where operator expected at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Throwable.pm line 42, near "has 'previous_exception'"
(Do you need to predeclare has?)
syntax error at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Throwable.pm line 42, near "has 'previous_exception'"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Throwable.pm line 79.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Module/Runtime.pm line 317.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Module/Runtime.pm line 317.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Module/Runtime.pm line 317.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Email/Sender/Role/CommonSending.pm line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Email/Sender/Role/CommonSending.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Module/Runtime.pm line 317.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Email/Sender/Simple.pm line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Email/Sender/Simple.pm line 23.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/AMC/perl/AMC-mailing.pl line 35.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/AMC/perl/AMC-mailing.pl line 35.
I spent some time yesterday looking at all the files referenced in the error message, but I have very limited experience with Perl. I'm happy to provide you with any more information. Thanks for maintaining such a great program.
History
Updated by Alexis Bienvenüe over 8 years ago
Can you also send a log file produced when trying to send emails in debugging mode (from the Help menu)?
Can you try the following command from a terminal, to see if Email::Sender::Simple is installed?
perl -MEmail::Sender::Simple -e ''
Updated by Joseph Stover over 8 years ago
Both of the commands perl -MEmail::Sender::Simple -e '' and auto-multiple-choice mailing --debug ~/amc.log result in the exact same output as auto-multiple-choice mailing. Debug mode does not produce a log file, so it is failing before then.
I do have the file Simple.pm at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Email/Sender/Simple.pm, which I believe is the Email::Sender::Simple module. The first five lines of the file are
package Email::Sender::Simple; # ABSTRACT: the simple interface for sending mail with Sender $Email::Sender::Simple::VERSION = '1.300021'; use Moo; with 'Email::Sender::Role::CommonSending';
Updated by Alexis Bienvenüe over 8 years ago
If Email::Sender::Simple is working, the command
perl -MEmail::Sender::Simple -e ''should return with no output. So I think there is a problem with this perl module, which is used by AMC to send emails…
Updated by Joseph Stover over 8 years ago
Still not sure what was causing the problem, the best I could get was discovering that any module that used the Throwable module generated errors as did running
perl -MThrowable -e ''
At any rate, if anyone else has a similar issue, what fixed it for me was uninstalling the Perl modules that I had installed using Pacman (the Arch package manager) and reinstalling them using CPAN (the Perl package manager). Thanks for your help Alexis and for maintaining a great program.
Updated by Alexis Bienvenüe about 8 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from New to Closed