LOL. Been there, done that :) Quick AR Email tip: add a user record with a login name of "0"
This way if an email/notification ever gets sent to "0" the engine evaluates the address to that one fake user instead of group 0 which is, of course, "Public," i.e. everyone in the user form. Juan Ingles On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:08 PM, William Rentfrow < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > Once upon a time a slight mis-configuration at an unnamed customer site > resulted in the AR 5.6 EE sending just over 625,000 emails in the span of > about 8 hours. > > It never even broke a sweat as far as I can tell. > > William Rentfrow > Principal Consultant, StrataCom Inc. > [email protected] > Blog: http:// <http://www.williamrentfrow.com/>www.williamrentfrow.com > O 715-592-5185 > C 715-410-8056 > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ramey, Anne > *Sent:* Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:31 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Email Engine and load > > ** ** > > What's your quantity of incoming messages? > > > > Anne Ramey > > > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jackie Morris > *Sent:* Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:08 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Email Engine and load > > > > ** > > Hi Anne- > > > > I have had up to 35 mailboxes being polled. It usually works extremely > well but once in a while, which typically is once a year, it just stops and > we have to restart the email engine. > > > > I have one mailbox that gets tons of mail so we poll that one every 2 mins, > but the rest get polled at staggered intervals—some 5 mins, some 11 mins, > some twice a day. Depends on what the mailbox will contain. > > > > The only problem that we have had that we have never gotten an answer for > is why one mailbox will get passed over and not polled. I turn on the debug > log and I can see the login, the retrieve, then the delete of the mail on > all the other mailboxes. And I’ll see it pass right over a mailbox and not > poll it at all. Still don’t know why that happens. > > > > We started using this on version 5.12, upgraded everything to 6.3 and are > now on 7.1. We’ve come to rely on email tickets (I use filters on the email > message form to create tickets based on the mailbox name) so when there is a > problem someone notices right away. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Jackie Morris > > Easylink Services > > 732-652-3611 > > > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ramey, Anne > *Sent:* Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:15 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Email Engine and load > > > > ** > > We currently have 13 incoming mailboxes we check. We are getting requests > for some 20 more. At this point we are wondering about load and what the > email engine can handle. Does anyone here have any experience/information > about the type of load the email engine can handle before it becomes error > prone or unreliable? > > > > For now we are starting to space out the amount of times the mailgoxes are > being checked so that they are kind of staggered, but I was wondering if > anyone had any load info or tips or tricks. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Anne Ramey > > > > > ------------------------------ > > E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North > Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an > authorized state official. > > _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers > Are"_ > > _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers > Are"_ > _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers > Are"_ _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the > Answers Are"_ > _Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers > Are"_ > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
