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When posting a comment at asksage.sagemath.org, I got an error message which was tough to read since it was white text on a yellow background.  I've mentioned this before at asksage, and I think Evgeny may have addressed it already, but it happened again today and that reminded me I had wanted to mention it here too.
 
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The link is here (my comment "I'm afraid the best I could try is . . ." to my own answer).  I'm afraid I don't remember the particular error message, but I did have the impression it was a server problem; the trac.sagemath.org site was having serious problems for a few hours this morning, so it may not necessarily be a bug with askbot.  I mostly just wanted to comment on the readibility of the error message :)
 
 
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        Niles, could you post a link to the offending question or answer (answers have a permanent link in the same row with "edit" link). This may due to corrupted data caused by the initial site misconfiguration or it may be a previously undetected bug. I'd really like to fix it soon of course.
      
 
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        Thanks for reporting this! +50 karma points :).
      
 
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        ha!  thanks :)
      
 
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Niles, the mail server is down on ask.sagemath.org and that causes severe problems - these are fixed in the latest code already. Unfortunately I have not foreseen this before.
 
Could you contact William or Mike? I have sent them an email, but maybe they'll react faster if more people nudge them?
 
As a temporary measure they can enter this into file settings.py (instead of any other EMAIL_BACKEND record) and restart the webserver, then fix the SMTP server issue.
 
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.locmem.EmailBackend'

 
Btw, with the new code you will be able to edit math on your site with MathJax.
 
 
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        Sorry for the long delay--looks like you're in touch with them now.  For what it's worth, I did report the Trac server problem, which may or may not have helped get their attention.
      
 
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