Jeff,
There is no automated way to perform that task.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Czyzewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [IMail Forum] List Processing When is it done?
> Daniel,
>
> Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, my list is 100% clean so I do tend
> to get some bounced mail. How can I have those bounces automatically
> removed from the list so next time I send out an email those addresses
> won't be there?
>
> Jeff
>
>
> ---------- Original Message Follows ----------
> Jeff,
>
> Delivery is 'done' when all addresses accept delivery, or reject, or
> after
> some number of tries (SMTP setting).
>
> Yes, the presence of the .lst files is a good indicator that at least
> some
> addresses have not yet gotten the email. You can use the View Queue to
> look
> at those files and see who they are From and To, and if from your
> list, then
> you know that all have not been delivered. Look at the To and you will
> see
> which addresses they are. I'm pretty sure that you will find most of
> these
> files have just a few addresses. And if you look at the number of
> Tries, you
> should see something like 1-4 tries by now, for each message. That
> probably
> means that IMail is having some difficulty delivering to the
> addresses. Need
> to check log files to learn more about why.
>
> If when you ask 'how to speed up', you mean cause IMail to complete
> faster,
> best thing you can do is get rid of addresses that are bouncing or not
> accepting the message. If IMail does not have to process 'bad
> addresses' it
> will finish up much faster! IMail will, by default, try up to 20
> times,
> before giving up and bouncing to the list owner. With the default
> Queue
> Timer (30 mins) setting, this can take up to 10 hours or more.
>
> I'm almost sure that you will find that IMail has delivered to 90%+++
> of the
> addresses and what is left are either 'bad' or their host servers are
> down.
> Some domains will also have DNS problems.
>
> What do you have set for the 'Number or recipient's for that list? The
> default is 25 which would put 80 messages in the queue and IMail has
> only 30
> delivery processes (that can be changed, see KB!). I'd suggest you
> change
> the 'Recipient's to 100 - 200 so no more than 20 or 10 files are in
> the
> queue. This will leave delivery processes for your other mail.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:30 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] List Processing When is it done?
>
>
> > Is there anyway I can tell when a list has sent out all of the
> messages? I
> have a mailing list of about 2000 people. How can I find out the
> status of
> the messages being sent out.
> >
> > I looked in the spool directory and see a bunch of .LST. Does that
> mean it
> is still running?
> >
> > How can I speed up the delivery process. I sent out the list over 2
> hours
> ago and if those LST files are still the list being sent then I would
> like
> to speed up the rate at which Imail sends.
> >
> > Jeff
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