no problem. If you need anything else, I should be in the office for another hour or 
so.

good luck.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:42 PM
To: inFusion Support List
Subject: RE: [iMS] The aftermath



Hey, thanks Mark. I appreciate that a lot :)



At 10:28 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Are you creating a parser in CF? Are you running CF5? or MX?
>
>Here is a function that works in CF5. It returns the e-mail string.
>
><cfscript>
>function findEmail(str)
>{
>  if (ArrayLen(Arguments) GT 1)
>         numStart = Arguments[2];
>  else
>         numStart = 1;
>
>  loc = 
> Refind("(|<|[])(([][-a-zA-Z0-9_%\.']*)[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]>.]*\.[]{2,})(|>|[])",str,numStart,1);
>
>  if (loc.pos[1] IS 0)
>         return '';
>  else
>         return mid(str,loc.pos[3],loc.len[3]);
>}
></cfscript>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:22 PM
>To: inFusion Support List
>Subject: RE: [iMS] The aftermath
>
>
>Yeah, I downloaded ultraedit and it can work with the large text file. I
>checked for the <bounce-ID string to see what campaigns went out and the
>later ones did not send at all.  The string did not exist, so I am almost
>100% sure the files were deleted before ever being sent. This would also
>explain the really low open rates,unsubs etc from the email campaigns that
>did get delivered. The final emails were deleted!
>
>This also explains why when I loaded up a larger number of emails at one
>time they seemed to disappear. Because of the wait! I think it was the max
>delivery time. I have changed this to 72 hours now. Stupid mistake on my
>part......
>
>Now, since I was not recording the individual deliveries I can not easily
>tell which addresses were missing, because now I need to send all the
>campaigns again.
>
>So I need to parse this 150 meg file, line by line, find the campaignID and
>recordID and record them to a temp table. Then re-send the mail and check
>against the addresses already delivered to.
>
>06/27/2003 06:16:36 PM [001] 231DE138C5E63545B785D8C4E70029E4.mbx sent
>successfully to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6922
>
>What is the best way to return this string
>"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" from that line?
>
>Brook
>
>At 10:00 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Howie would know for sure.
> >
> >I would doubt that the auto clean up would delete files that could still
> >be in use or intended to be used. I have never run into any issues with
> >the auto clean up.
> >
> >With a post log as large as 150mb, even with protocol logging on, I would
> >assume that a ton of e-mail went out.
> >
> >Is there anyway you can scan that log?
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:53 PM
> >To: inFusion Support List
> >Subject: RE: [iMS] The aftermath
> >
> >
> >Hmm,
> >
> >I think I may know what happened to my email. I think I screwed the post
> >server settings. I set the auto queue clean up to 2 Hours. Would this have
> >a bad effect?
> >
> >I also set max delivery time 1 hour and the retry interval to 45 minutes.
> >My plan was that the email would be attempted only once with these
> >settings. BUT, is it possible the email files were being deleted before
> >they were ever sent???
> >
> >Brook
> >
> >
> >At 08:48 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >We record every single delivery as well as every failure.
> > >
> > >If you want a count of what went out successfully, you could do a search
> > >and count for "sent successfully" in the post logs. The easiest way to do
> > >this that I can think of off the top of my head would be to do an extended
> > >find on the log file using CF Studio (if that is what you are using).
> > >However, I'm not sure how well it would handle a 150mb file.
> > >
> > >If you know another language, such as Java, you could always create a
> > >quick app to search for and count "sent successfully".
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:42 PM
> > >To: inFusion Support List
> > >Subject: RE: [iMS] The aftermath
> > >
> > >
> > >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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