Hello Roelof, Thursday, September 29, 2005, 1:10:43 PM, you wrote:
Roelof> Hallo Granville, Roelof> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:34:26 +0100GMT (29-9-2005, 1:34 +0200, where I Roelof> live), you wrote: GC>> I have a data base with approximately 2,000 members. Roelof> That's a lot. GC>> On the occasions that I need to mass mail my group I do so using GC>> The Bat!. Roelof> 2000 messages is a lot too. GC>> What happens if I have entered an email address into my data base GC>> which is incorrectly addressed then The Bat! refuses to send any GC>> of the other emails Roelof> TB tries to send the mails in the same order as they're in the queue, Roelof> it's only keeping track of what's being sent. As soon as the SMTP Roelof> server reports an error the transmission stops. But the error can be Roelof> manifold, too many messages in one session, connection out of sync, Roelof> illegal syntax, whatever. Roelof> It would be too much for TB to interpret the cause of the error and Roelof> act accordingly. So it keeps its queue and tries again during the next Roelof> connection. GC>> and I have to go through my entire data base to find the one GC>> email that is causing the problem. Roelof> That shouldn't be too hard, you should be able to find the offending Roelof> message via TB's log, here's an example: Roelof> ,----- [ ] Roelof> | 29-9-2005, 13:50:48: SEND - sending message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roelof> | 29-9-2005, 13:50:48: SEND - The last address submitted was <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roelof> | !29-9-2005, 13:50:48: SEND - Message has not been sent. Server reply - mailbox not found Roelof> | 29-9-2005, 13:50:48: SEND - connection finished - 0 messages sent Roelof> | 29-9-2005, 13:50:48: SEND - Some messages were not sent - check the log for details Roelof> `----- Roelof> A simple search option should help you out now. GC>> Why can't The Bat! send all the valid emails and leave the GC>> incorrect ones in the outbox. Roelof> Because it isn't as simple as that (I tried to explain that above) and Roelof> though TB has this nice mass mailing feature, it's not really up to Roelof> the challenge to act like a real mail server (because real servers can Roelof> do what you expect this client to do) for this kind of messages. GC>> This is what I would expect to happen from this email client. Or GC>> do I need to configure The Bat! to do this? Do you know of a mass mailing client that would work with The Bat!? One that could handle my mailing list of 2,000 subscribers. -- Love and Light, Granville mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
