Are you actually recording each message delivered? I am recording failures. This is why I am pretty sure some of the mail was never sent, because The DB *would* show un deliverables from the data.cfm template....

Brook


At 07:33 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Brook,

What you need to do is take advantage of ReportPostStatus.cfm.PostFail.cfm, and PostWarn.cfm. You can use these to enter data into a database while mail is being sent out.

There are some samples of these in the manuals.

Marc



-----Original Message-----
From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 5:56 PM
To: inFusion Support List
Subject: [iMS] The aftermath


I just sent my first largish campaign of about 500,000 emails. Or at least I thought I did. I am having a lot of difficulty trying to determin what was sent and what was not. It does not look like all of the mail that I *thought* I wrote to the out folder was sent.

Can you guys who send large campaigns regularly help me understand how you
parse the logs for results and any tips & tricks to dealing with large log
files. My log file (POST) is 150 megs. I am having a log of trouble trying
to read/open it.

I checked the stats folder and it shows:

------------------------------------------------------------

[Tallies]
mail.mailidmx498.net=22810
mailout.uk.com=4

[Bandwidth]
mail.mailidmx498.net=160390788
mailout.uk.com=1625

[Totals]
TotalMessages=22814
TotalBandwidth=160392413

------------------------------------------------------------

Does this mean that really only 228,10 emails were sent? What about
undeliverable mail, is that included in this count? If so, then for some
reason, it looks like not all of my email went out. I am using a logging
feature to log the script that rights the mail/calls the cfx. It was
sending 50,000 emails at a time. And is logged as completing on each cycle
and I *believe* the mail files were being written.

The reason I am a bit unsure if the emails were all sent is that all of the
outgoing emails have link tracking and open rate tracking code. And  on the
last 4 campaigns of 50,000, no openrates, undeliverable or any other
tracking code was triggered. So it really doesn't seem like these emails
went out although I am fairly certain they were written to the queue,
although I do not know how to verify this 100%.

Any help is really appreciated.

Brook


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