RE: EOF error message in email.log
Rob, Thanks for your response. To answer your question, this is part of a member search feature on a web site where you can search a directory for a list of contacts with a certain criteria (e.g. members in chicago). Then, you can email a message to the list. It's an old feature and was created by adding the full list of emails into the bcc line. It could add them into the to line I suppose, but I imagine that would still have the same problem. So, are you saying that a single (or multiple) bad email addresses in a list on the bcc (or to) line of the email could lead to it being rejected by the mail server? We can go into the undelivr folder and manualy drag it back into the spool folder. After trying this several times, the email finally sends? Does that suggest that it might be more of a timeout issue? N -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:29 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log I would guess that it is a bad e-mail causing the problem. Why are you BCC-ing a bunch of e-mails? Why not just send direct? Of course looking at the e-mails may lead you to the problem, or see what is in the undeliverable folder. Rob On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Nick Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having problems sending out an email through our application using cfmail. We are seeing the following record in mail.log: Error,scheduler-8,11/04/08,15:10:23,,[EOF] I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure what that really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc field, so that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure if there are bad email addresses in the list that are causing the problem or just too many to process before a timeout, or something else. Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? Thanks again in advance! Nick ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314862 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: EOF error message in email.log
Nick, I usually just loop over the single e-mail address, and do not send a single e-mail to like 200 recipients at one time. I usually will customize the e-mail body, rather than using a BCC. Taking this approach would probably save you on both accounts of a possible time out, and any bad e-mails, as they would be identified. The load on the mail server would increase, but I think the results would be easier to manage. Of course that is just my 2 cents. Is there anyway that you could check the e-mails to see that they are all properly formed? Or perhaps there is an unusual character in one of them? Or you could set a limit of lets say 100 emails in the bcc and just divide the list up and try sending it that way? I think that limiting the # of e-mail addresses will help with any potential time-out issues. Rob On 11/5/08, Nick Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob, Thanks for your response. To answer your question, this is part of a member search feature on a web site where you can search a directory for a list of contacts with a certain criteria (e.g. members in chicago). Then, you can email a message to the list. It's an old feature and was created by adding the full list of emails into the bcc line. It could add them into the to line I suppose, but I imagine that would still have the same problem. So, are you saying that a single (or multiple) bad email addresses in a list on the bcc (or to) line of the email could lead to it being rejected by the mail server? We can go into the undelivr folder and manualy drag it back into the spool folder. After trying this several times, the email finally sends? Does that suggest that it might be more of a timeout issue? N -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:29 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log I would guess that it is a bad e-mail causing the problem. Why are you BCC-ing a bunch of e-mails? Why not just send direct? Of course looking at the e-mails may lead you to the problem, or see what is in the undeliverable folder. Rob On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Nick Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having problems sending out an email through our application using cfmail. We are seeing the following record in mail.log: Error,scheduler-8,11/04/08,15:10:23,,[EOF] I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure what that really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc field, so that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure if there are bad email addresses in the list that are causing the problem or just too many to process before a timeout, or something else. Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? Thanks again in advance! Nick ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314863 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: EOF error message in email.log
Rob, Thanks, that is solid advice. We'll look into making those kinds of changes. When this feature was initially created, it did not anticipate this many emails going out so I think it's a case of an unexpected load. Also, if anyone else has insight into the meaning of the EOF error in the mail.log, I'd still be interested. Thanks! Nick -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:30 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log Nick, I usually just loop over the single e-mail address, and do not send a single e-mail to like 200 recipients at one time. I usually will customize the e-mail body, rather than using a BCC. Taking this approach would probably save you on both accounts of a possible time out, and any bad e-mails, as they would be identified. The load on the mail server would increase, but I think the results would be easier to manage. Of course that is just my 2 cents. Is there anyway that you could check the e-mails to see that they are all properly formed? Or perhaps there is an unusual character in one of them? Or you could set a limit of lets say 100 emails in the bcc and just divide the list up and try sending it that way? I think that limiting the # of e-mail addresses will help with any potential time-out issues. Rob On 11/5/08, Nick Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob, Thanks for your response. To answer your question, this is part of a member search feature on a web site where you can search a directory for a list of contacts with a certain criteria (e.g. members in chicago). Then, you can email a message to the list. It's an old feature and was created by adding the full list of emails into the bcc line. It could add them into the to line I suppose, but I imagine that would still have the same problem. So, are you saying that a single (or multiple) bad email addresses in a list on the bcc (or to) line of the email could lead to it being rejected by the mail server? We can go into the undelivr folder and manualy drag it back into the spool folder. After trying this several times, the email finally sends? Does that suggest that it might be more of a timeout issue? N -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:29 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: EOF error message in email.log I would guess that it is a bad e-mail causing the problem. Why are you BCC-ing a bunch of e-mails? Why not just send direct? Of course looking at the e-mails may lead you to the problem, or see what is in the undeliverable folder. Rob On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Nick Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having problems sending out an email through our application using cfmail. We are seeing the following record in mail.log: Error,scheduler-8,11/04/08,15:10:23,,[EOF] I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure what that really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc field, so that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure if there are bad email addresses in the list that are causing the problem or just too many to process before a timeout, or something else. Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? Thanks again in advance! Nick ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
EOF error message in email.log
Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having problems sending out an email through our application using cfmail. We are seeing the following record in mail.log: Error,scheduler-8,11/04/08,15:10:23,,[EOF] I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure what that really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc field, so that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure if there are bad email addresses in the list that are causing the problem or just too many to process before a timeout, or something else. Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? Thanks again in advance! Nick ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314830 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: EOF error message in email.log
I would guess that it is a bad e-mail causing the problem. Why are you BCC-ing a bunch of e-mails? Why not just send direct? Of course looking at the e-mails may lead you to the problem, or see what is in the undeliverable folder. Rob On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Nick Gleason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there - another cfmail related question. A client is having problems sending out an email through our application using cfmail. We are seeing the following record in mail.log: Error,scheduler-8,11/04/08,15:10:23,,[EOF] I gather that EOF stands for end of file, but I'm not sure what that really means in this case. Is it a timeout? If so, why? In this case, there are a lot of email addresses in the bcc field, so that may be the culprit. But, even so, we're not sure if there are bad email addresses in the list that are causing the problem or just too many to process before a timeout, or something else. Any ideas about how to further diagnose this? Thanks again in advance! Nick ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314833 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
