send_email not sending emails

[pinax]

send_email not sending emails

[psychok7]

it looks like the issue is happending somewhere here in the send_all():

    acquired, lock = acquire_lock()
    if not acquired:
        return

for some reason it now aquiring the lock
Any ideas?

[spookylukey]

The lock file is called "send_mail.lock". https://github.com/pinax/django-mailer/blob/master/mailer/engine.py#L76, in your current directory. You will need to delete this.

[psychok7]

@spookylukey send_mail.lock is not being created for me to delete it and i do have permissions to write to that folder

[spookylukey]

It sounds like either you are looking in the wrong directory, or you've found a bug in lockfile. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lockfile

[psychok7]

@spookylukey i was looking at lockfile source code and i found something interesting:

in the aquire() function in the os.link() it's giving me OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

i changed it to shutil.copy2 just for testing and it worked so for some reason os.link() its not doing what is supposed to do.

I am sure i am in the right directory because i can see the temporary unique file being generated, it just not able to os.link() and i have no clue why (permissions should be right).

I saw some other recommended locking python apps like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.lockfile for example maybe i am going to give it a try

[psychok7]

Ok i think i finally got to the bottom of this. So i am using Vagrant 1.7.4 but there appears to be a bug with the symlink creation as reported here hashicorp/vagrant#713

If i do os.link() outside my vagrant it works so i am assuming django-mailer will work too

[psychok7]

@spookylukey i created a PR with a detailed explanation of how i solved my problem and some code to allow an alternative locking system provided by lockfile as well.