At 9:09 AM -0700 10/17/01, Richard Tjoa imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >Hello, all. > >The short-ish question: What's the best way to send the same text >message to 1700 people?
Autoshare. >That is, I have an e-mail newsletter that I want to send out. It >isn't a digest, and I don't want it to look like one. I essentially, >want to BCC all 1700 recipients on the e-mail. I assume that they have all asked to be sent this newsletter. Spam is BAD. >The long-ish question: Ok, that said, here's my problem: I decided >to set up a distribution list with 1700 names on it. I sent one >e-mail to the my distribution list mailbox, so that SIMS could then >send the e-mails out to 1700 people. (Also, directly, not via a >relay.) SIMS could maybe do this on its own, but it's not really designed for lists that big. >A bunch went out, but then I started getting type 10 errors. (It >seems to freeze right after SIMS times out trying to connect with >servers, and then tries the next one.) I restarted, but DNS lookups >and connections seem to take a long time to complete. I then cut the >number of concurrent connections down to 10, 5, and 1 (from 50). That's probably not the right approach. If you are getting Type 10 system errors (which mean that execution has wandered off into someplace it should not be, where the data doesn't even look like valid code) the likely problems are a corrupted disk or a memory squeeze on SIMS. It's hard to get SIMS' memory allocation wrong since it adjusts itself to the settings, so I'd look very hard at that disk. >Now, SIMS can barely get through a single name before choking. Is >there a way to tell which e-mails were sent? What's the significance >of the information in the "S.xxxxxxxx" files in my Queue folder >(which I open up using BBEdit)? Between crashes, I pulled everything >out of my Queue folder, save the one message that looks like my >original one. the S.* files in the Queue folder are undelivered messages. Each file has the message body with envelope (sender/recipient data) and delivery attempt status info at the top. If the files do not look like that, then disk corruption is almost certain. Stalker has not fully documented the format of the envelope & status data, but you can get some sense of what it means by returning the messages to the Queue folder and looking at the Queue with Communigator or the web interface. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
