----- Original Message -----
From: Tac/Smokescreen Action Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: inFusion Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 10:24 AM
Subject: [iMS] Some technical issues
> I have a few technical issues, not sure if these are better requested
> off-list, but figured it's worth posting to the list even if it's just so
> that Howie's responses get into the archives.
>
> (1) The log file do not appear to be delimitted with "\n" (CRLF, I think),
> but rather just CR [chr(13)]. This adds some slight complexity to
utilities
> that parse the logs. Can that be standardized?
>
All log file lines end with CRLF (#13#10). Not sure why you see
otherwise...
> (2) Retries. How often is a message retried? Looking at my logs from
> yesterday, I see that a few addresses have caused most of the repeated
mail.
> This issue will be more easily resolved if Howie adds the DELIVERYFAILURE
> method discussed yesterday.
>
Messages are retried according to your POST settings. There is one setting
for retry time (defaults to 10 minutes) and one for overall message delivery
(defaults to 24 hours). The POST server will only retry if the error in
delivery is transient (it will not retry permanent failures). Tranisient
delivery failures are:
1 - unable to connect to remote server
2 - remote server reports mailbox full
3 - remote server reports local temporary processing error
...
> (3) Timer. I'm starting to prepare the digest edition of my lists, but
> don't want to use Cold Fusion's scheduler for it. (I'm very, very angry at
> Allaire for releasing a sub-par product with CF4.5, especially in the mail
> area. Truthfully, I've stopped trusting their product for mail and
> scheduling). It'd be great if iMS could include some sort of timer that
> called a template at a designated time, for digests, indexing, etc.
>
We had a request like that before. What I would suggest is putting the
command into the NT Scheduler for now. What I will do is take suggestions
on where to put this scheduler and what features it would have (frequency,
etc.) and then consider that for a subsequent release.
> (4) Outlook Express is hanging when trying to POP an account. The
message
> it hangs on is one sent by CF. Has anyone seen this behavior before? The
> CF that's creating the message is:
>
> <CFMAIL FROM="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> TO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> SUBJECT="SAN Login: #U.Firstname# #U.Lastname#">
> Login: #U.Firstname# #U.Lastname#
> From: #U.City#, <CFIF U.State IS "ZZ">#U.foreignState#
> #U.Country#<CFELSE>#U.State#</CFIF>
> Phone: #U.Phone#
> e-mail: #u.email#
> From: #CGI.Remote_Addr#
> #DateFormat(Now(),"dddd, m/d/yy")#, #TimeFormat(Now(),"h:mm:ss TT")#
> </CFMAIL>
>
> It seems to get there ok, and can be read with the FusionMail web
interface
> (I guess that's not surprising!) The POP3 log (with protocol logging on)
> shows:
>
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: <-USER tac
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->+OK tac is welcome
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: <-PASS password
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->+OK mailbox locked
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: <-STAT
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->+OK 1 604
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: <-LIST
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->+OK 1 604 (octets)
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->1 604
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->.
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: <-RETR 1
> 10:18:59 AM [001] DEBUG: ->+OK 604 octets.
>
> and just stops here.
>
Do you still have the raw mail? If so, send it to me and I'll see what is
causing this. Some causes for these types of problems (with Outlook
especially) are:
- Reported message size is incorrect (should be 604 bytes from the above)
- There is a single period on a line before the end of the message
> My old mail server, which has delivered 6.5 million messages since 1995,
is
> now off, everything's been transferred over to iMS as of yesterday
> afternoon. Anyone that would like to see my forum interface, visit
> http://www.smokescreen.org
> (Warning: if you're a smoker you might not be pleased with what I do,
these
> lists are to help tobacco control advocates strategize for smokefree
> environments, cessation, tobacco industry research, etc.)
>
I have no problem with that!
Regards,
Howie
> Tac
>
>
>
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