Posts by AxiomOmen

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not sending out workunits after mass cancel (Message 104598)
Posted 18 Jun 2021 by AxiomOmen
Post:
I figured out what the problem was. We had an issue with the signature files changing between versions last update. Since the older version was using invalid signature files, MW@home was not sending any executables. We rereleased the old version as a new one with updated signature files, and now I'm receiving nbody workunits.

Thank you all for your time looking into this.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC not sending out workunits after mass cancel (Message 104587)
Posted 17 Jun 2021 by AxiomOmen
Post:
Very recently on MilkyWay@home, I deprecated the latest version of milkyway_nbody (v1.80) and un-deprecated an older version (v1.76) to run some optimizations using the older version. However, since the current workunits from my last set optimizations were incompatible with the older version, and because I didn't want to scare all of our volunteers with computation errors, I cancelled all of the old workunits (roughly over 200,000) before the deprecation using the Cancel Jobs by SQL option in milkyway_ops. I then put up 3 new runs using the older version of milkyway_nbody.

After about a day, I discovered that BOINC had not sent out any of the new workunits. I can see that 999 jobs were created for one of the three optimizations (none for any of the others), but no workunits are being sent out at all.

Does anyone have any insight as to what is happening?
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Gmail accounts not receiving password reset emails through PHP mail() function (Message 91605)
Posted 22 May 2019 by AxiomOmen
Post:
When I try receiving a password link, this is what I see in the mail log for our server:

May 22 14:31:12 milkyway3 sendmail[30076]: x4MIVCdl030076: from=boinc, size=545, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201905221831.x4MIVCdl030076@milkyway3.phys.rpi.edu>, relay=boinc@localhost
May 22 14:31:12 milkyway3 sm-mta[30077]: x4MIVCqZ030077: from=<boinc@milkyway3.phys.rpi.edu>, size=783, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201905221831.x4MIVCdl030076@milkyway3.phys.rpi.edu>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
May 22 14:31:12 milkyway3 sendmail[30076]: x4MIVCdl030076: to=rubegoldberg715@gmail.com, ctladdr=boinc (1002/1002), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30545, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (x4MIVCqZ030077 Message accepted for delivery)
May 22 14:31:12 milkyway3 sm-mta[30079]: x4MIVCqZ030077: to=<rubegoldberg715@gmail.com>, ctladdr=<boinc@milkyway3.phys.rpi.edu> (1002/1002), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=120783, relay=alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. [108.177.127.26], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.


This seems like more of a security issue than a university problem. How can I change the securities to allow Google and other email providers to accept my password reset emails, and where can I find said configurations?
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Gmail accounts not receiving password reset emails through PHP mail() function (Message 91603)
Posted 22 May 2019 by AxiomOmen
Post:
Hello,

About a week and a half ago, I received an email from one of the users in MilkyWay@home. He said he was having trouble receiving an email to reset his password even though our site confirmed the email was sent. After I tested the site using some dummy accounts, I found that not only was his account failing to receive emails, but ALL gmail accounts were rejecting our emails! I've tried looking into ways of having the PHP mail() function send to those accounts, but it's as if Gmail is completely ignoring all emails from our site. Every solution I've found on the internet has either failed to solve the problem or made it so that NO accounts can receive the password reset email. I've also received word from our user that only MilkyWay@home is giving him trouble with resetting his password. Is there anyone who can help with this problem?
Thank you in advance.

-Eric Mendelsohn

P.S. - After testing with a few other temporary emails, it seems that it isn't just gmail accounts that cannot receive the password reset email. It appears that any email that does not have a .edu cannot receive a password reset email.



Copyright © 2024 University of California.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.