----- Original Message -----
From: Tac/Smokescreen Action Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: inFusion Support List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 7:10 AM
Subject: [iMS] outlook express timeout problem
> I have a user who is having a problem sending messages to a large list
> through Outlook Express. He sends the message, then Outlook times out.
> This is particularly bad, because when it times out, it does not clear out
> the Out folder, and the message is retried a few minutes later. (However,
> the message really does get sent out. Obviously, this causes repeated
> messages to the large list).
>
> This doesn't happen when sending to small lists or to individual users.
My
> theory: When my mail server is slow (as it sometimes is, since that
machine
> also runs the Verity search engine for an unrelated site), the message is
> sent, but then immediately goes to generate the 4000 individual messages
to
> be sent to the list. This process is now taking up all the CPU, so the
> client (Outlook) times out waiting to receive the messages for download.
>
> Can iMS be fixed to prevent this from happening?
>
That is kind of surprising because the list mail should be one mail file and
one control file per domain. Since there is a lot of overlap in domains
(lots of pople with hotmail accounts, for example) the number of control
files should be far less than 4000 and I'm surprised that Outlook is timing
out. But, since it is, you need to set up a new delivery scheme for these
large lists. When mail is received to the list send the mail to a special
processor account and then the processor account will do the normal list
processing.
> Tac
>
> PS Howie -- any word on the DELIVERYERROR template? I started working on
>
> parsing out the bounces messages, and I'm more convinced than ever that
> catching these types of errors during POST will be much smoother. Thx!
>
Not yet...we need to hash out the details. This kind of modification is
bigger than most and has more ramifications. For example, there will be
users that do not want to use this feature at all - so we need to allow it
to be turned off. Also, the POST server does not use any templates
currently so we need to add code for that.
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