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From: Tac/Smokescreen Action Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: inFusion Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: [iMS] removing messages from the queue
> A user sent a message to a fairly large list last night, and it ended up
in
> a loop, repeating the message continuously. I'm working my way out of it
> this morning.
>
> It appears that the server iMS is running on sometimes really slows down,
> and I don't know where that's coming from. The iMS CF templates (namely
the
> one that does the query to get the e-mail addresses to deliver to the
list)
> took unexpectedly long to run (over 90 seconds), created an error message
in
> the log file.
>
> Somehow, the messages ended up getting sent, but I guess not tagged that
> they were being sent, thus the reason for the multiple messages. I've
since
> removed the "Timeout" provision in the CF Administrator, I assume this
will
> help.
There is also a setting in the iMS configuration for ColdFusion timeout.
> I still need to find the underlying cause of the lengthy templates --
> they are usually run in just a few seconds or less.
>
> Anyway, now I have a lot of messages in both \iMS\Out and \iMS\Out\queued,
> which I'd like to delete (these are mostly bad addresses or busy receiving
> servers). I can go in with a perl script and find the messages that are
to
> that particular list, and I'd like to delete them.
>
> My question: what's the relationship between queued and the messages in
the
> \out? Is it related to filename? Do I need to remove both a file in
queued
> and a file in \out to purge it?
>
Outgoing messages consist of two files - the raw mail file and a control
file (for a list there may be one mail file and several control files). The
mail and control files are written to the \Out directory. When the POST
server queues the mail for sending the control file is moved to the \Queued
directory but the raw file stays in the \Out directory.
> This info will also be relevant, I assume, if the DELIVERYERROR template
is
> implemented.
>
If you send the list mail from a special account and include the special
headers that I mentioned last week then you can process delivery failures
that way.
Howie
> Thanks!
>
> Tac
>
>
>
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