postie is not automatically posting

  • Resolved ride2719

    (@ride2719)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry for the bandwidth on a question I know has been asked before. I’ve read everything I can find on this but have not found the fix yet.

    I’m running a multisite (subdirectory version) and running postie in each of the sub-sites. WordPress is installed in a subdirectory called wp. Full disclosure: I have only been working with one of the sub-sites — too much time to try the same things on all of them. I have tried many variations on the configuration settings in postie.

    So a typical url is:
    <domain name>/wp/<sub-site-name>/<page-name>/

    After many weeks of working correctly, postie has stopped checking mail automatically. It still works manually.

    I have set the “check mail every” to everything from 15 seconds to 1 minute.

    I have repeatedly accessed pages in both the sub-site and the primary site.

    I have set up a cron job that has tried several variations of the cron url:
    <domain-name>/wp/<sub-site-name>/wp-cron.php
    <domain-name>/wp/<sub-site-name>/?postie=get-mail
    <domain-name>/wp/wp-cron.php
    <domain-name>/wp/?postie=get-mail

    (Question – does activity in a sub-site have to be triggered with a url that includes the sub-site name?)

    I know the url’s for the primary site (with no sub-site-name) are doing something that looks right. HOWEVER, the url’s that contain the sub-site-name do not seem to do anything, i.e. they don’t seem to produce any web page output.

    I’ve worked hours on this and really need some help.
    Thanks in advance.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/

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  • Thread Starter ride2719

    (@ride2719)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    OK, sorry to whine but I am seriously stuck on this. I have:
    — reinstalled the plugin
    — disabled all other plugins except akismet
    — set up an external cron that seems to be working
    — tried manual posting which works
    — checked settings multiple times
    — I have read and implemented stuff according to the “Postie Not Checking Email” article on the postie site.

    Can someone please help??? TIA

    opus13i

    (@opus13i)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    I am having issues with the latest version (neither automatic nor manually forcing the process is working). All I get is a blank screen :/

    Oddly, after a bunch of tests, it looks like Postie is indeed checking the account *and deleting the message* but never actually posting it.

    Screenshot of the manual function: http://i.imgur.com/7Xee8MI.png

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Do you see any errors in you web server or php logs? Have you turned on Postie error logging? Do rejected message get sent to anyone?

    opus13i

    (@opus13i)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry for hijacking someone else thread, but hopefully it is useful for many.

    I have logging enabled, and in my php log it looks like everything processes correctly.

    Also, here is a pastebin of the postie log: http://pastebin.com/9whCiDkV

    I just noticed that when i check my Media, all the image attachments that I have sent since the 12th of this month do not have valid thumbnails.

    Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/m3iHaGZ.jpg

    I cannot view the attachment without viewing the attachment page.

    Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Okwu4pw.png

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    It looks like your host is one of the few that has issues with thumbnail generation, please set the “Generate Thumbnails” setting to “No” and see if that helps.

    opus13i

    (@opus13i)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks, it now works.

    What is very odd is that i have another site on the same server using the exact same config.. and it works just fine.

    Thread Starter ride2719

    (@ride2719)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    OK I figured it out. I had set up an external cron job to trigger Postie. The request was being hijacked by some home-grown code that was looking for access from users that are not logged in (i.e. you must be logged in to use the site), and it was routing the request to a log-in page before wp-cron was invoked. I wrote the check because I could not find a plugin to do this as comprehensively as I wanted it.

    The think that confuses me is that it WAS invoking a page, i.e. the log-in page. All the documentation I’ve seen to this point says that if ANY page is accessed that cron will be invoked — I have not disabled the normal cron logic.

    To be a little more precise:
    The external cron job invokes:
    http://<domain-name>/wp/<sub-site-name>/wp-cron.php
    The internal log-in check reroutes the request to:
    http://<domain-name>/wp/<sub-site-name>/log-in
    I checked and the cron job is in fact receiving the log-in web page as output from the server (which of course was not seen by a person). When I excluded the cron request from the log-in check Postie started working.

    Can anyone tell me why the invocation of the log-in page did not trigger Postie?

    Thanks.

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    My guess is that the cron timer was getting reset every time the wp-con page was hit resulting in WP thinking it didn’t need to run the cron on page load.

    thetechtrader

    (@thetechtrader)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Im no programmer who can do things like cron jobs etc… I have used an old version of Postie for about 5 years never had an issue, stupid me I decided to update the plugin when old postie worked perfectly fine. updated plugin does not work.. I sees the pending emails but will not process it and post. I have to now manually process it each time.

    Can someone help me please?

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Please start your own support thread.

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