Nick, I usually just loop over the single e-mail address, and do not send a single e-mail to like 200 recipients at one time. I usually will customize the e-mail body, rather than using a BCC. Taking this approach would probably save you on both accounts of a possible time out, and any bad e-mails, as they would be identified. The load on the mail server would increase, but I think the results would be easier to manage. Of course that is just my 2 cents.
Is there anyway that you could check the e-mails to see that they are all properly formed? Or perhaps there is an unusual character in one of them? Or you could set a limit of lets say 100 emails in the bcc and just divide the list up and try sending it that way? I think that limiting the # of e-mail addresses will help with any potential time-out issues. Rob On 11/5/08, Nick Gleason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks for your response. To answer your question, this is part of a > "member search" feature on a web site where you can search a directory for a > list of contacts with a certain criteria (e.g. members in chicago). Then, > you can email a message to the list. It's an old feature and was created by > adding the full list of emails into the bcc line. It could add them into > the "to" line I suppose, but I imagine that would still have the same > problem. > > So, are you saying that a single (or multiple) bad email addresses in a list > on the bcc (or to) line of the email could lead to it being rejected by the > mail server? > > We can go into the undelivr folder and manualy drag it back into the spool > folder. After trying this several times, the email finally sends? Does > that suggest that it might be more of a timeout issue? > > N > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:29 PM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log >> >> I would guess that it is a bad e-mail causing the problem. >> Why are you BCC-ing a bunch of e-mails? Why not just send >> direct? Of course looking at the e-mails may lead you to the >> problem, or see what is in the undeliverable folder. >> Rob >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Nick Gleason >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having >> > problems sending out an email through our application using >> cfmail. >> > We are seeing the following record in mail.log: >> > "Error","scheduler-8","11/04/08","15:10:23",,"[EOF]" >> > >> > I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure >> what that >> > really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? >> > >> > In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc >> field, so >> > that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure if there are >> > bad email addresses in the list that are causing the >> problem or just >> > too many to process before a timeout, or something else. >> > >> > Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? >> > >> > Thanks again in advance! >> > >> > Nick >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
