no problem. If you need anything else, I should be in the office for another hour or so.
good luck. ------------------------------------------------------ Marc Lichtenfeld Senior Programmer/Technology Lead www.bigdough.com (301)760-2827 <http://bigdough.com/news/index.cfm?stage=Article&Article_ID=48> <http://bigdough.com/news/index.cfm?stage=Article&Article_ID=49> -----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 > > > > > > > > ==^======================================================= This list server is Powered by iMS "The Swiss Army Knife of Mail Servers" -------------------------------------- To leave this list please complete the form at http://www.coolfusion.com/Support/ Need an iMS Developer license? Sign up for a free license here: http://www.coolfusion.com/Support/ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/infusion-email%40eoscape.com/ Note: You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^=======================================================
