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General Help & How-To / Mail Sending Progress

« on: November 06, 2007, 11:40:38 am »

Finally!

The test message was successfully received and processed by ListMail's bounce.cgi.

This most likely means that the script is configured correctly.

Thanks for those excellent instructions. I've been going back and forth with this with my web host for several days and I had just about given up getting the bounce.cgi working.

I just chmod the cgi-bin to be also executed by "other" and used the code you gave for the .qmail-bounce file. Before I was just using: |/path/to/your/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi

The chmod +x command allows the execute for "others", correct? I haven't used shell commands yet, so I just did it from the server control panel.

Not sure which of those worked, but I am so glad that it finally does.

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / Mail Sending Progress

« on: November 01, 2007, 04:19:15 pm »

Okay, thanks Dean. It's not that big of a deal since the emails are being sent. It would just be nice to see the progress. Please let me know if you find out anything else.

I am also having problems setting up the bounce.cgi to work. I have been using the bounce mailbox method up until now, but would like to get the bounce.cgi method working since this is the recommended method. I have set it up as instructed in the help files: created the .qmail-bounce file and uploaded it to the correct directory and the bounce.cgi to my cgi-bin. Does anything come to mind to be sure to check?

My host has no idea why it isn't working and they contacted swsoft about it and so far, they have been no help.

Keith

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General Help & How-To / Mail Sending Progress

« on: October 31, 2007, 04:46:18 pm »

Is this what you are talking about?

# AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress
# information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
# Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives have nothing
# to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.
#
#AddEncoding x-compress .Z
#AddEncoding x-gzip .gz .tgz

# If the AddEncoding directives above are commented-out, then you
# probably should define those extensions to indicate media types:
#
AddType application/x-compress .Z
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz

Do I just comment out the "AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz" by adding a "#" in front of it?

Keith

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General Help & How-To / Mail Sending Progress

« on: October 31, 2007, 03:38:39 pm »

Hi Dean,

It looks like this is already set to off. Any other things to look for?

; Output buffering allows you to send header lines (including cookies) even
; after you send body content, at the price of slowing PHP's output layer a
; bit.  You can enable output buffering during runtime by calling the output
; buffering functions.  You can also enable output buffering for all files by
; setting this directive to On.  If you wish to limit the size of the buffer
; to a certain size - you can use a maximum number of bytes instead of 'On', as
; a value for this directive (e.g., output_buffering=4096).
output_buffering = Off

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / Mail Sending Progress

« on: October 30, 2007, 07:17:27 pm »

Since I have moved List Mail Pro to a VPS with Plesk, when I send out a broadcast, List Mail doesn't display the sending progress numbers until it's done sending the broadcast and it then shows the progress numbers like 25 of 25 emails sent.

Is there something that needs to be set on the server for this to work correctly?

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / Emails Stuck in Server Queue

« on: July 08, 2007, 11:02:11 pm »

Thanks Dean. I disabled the PHP Safe Mode and optimized qmail as in the post then resumed the scheduled emails that went out in tonight's daily mail and it sent this time. I am learning about VPS slowly, but surely.

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / Emails Stuck in Server Queue

« on: July 08, 2007, 02:11:49 pm »

I recently changed to a VPS with the Plesk Control Panel. Last night, I sceduled emails to go out to some of my lists. This morning, I logged in to ListMail and it said there were mails left in qeue and I clicked the resume button. There were about 400 of them and it would send about 100, then stop and I had to click resume about 4 or 5 times to get them all to send.

After that, I logged into my vps and went to the mail logs in plesk and there were quite a few email still in there. Looks like they are eventually sending, but 4 hours later there are still 11 emails left.

I emailed my hosting company and they said they checked the logs and everything and all was working as it should.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / ListMailPro Keeps Sending Same Message

« on: July 01, 2007, 09:04:46 am »

Hi Dean,

That's what I thought, that the mail queue was just backed up, but the dates in the header were the current date of the day that I received them. Unfortunately I deleted the first one, so I can't compare them. So far, it hasn't happened again, so maybe it was just a hiccup from the server. I am in the process of moving everything over to a VPS to see how that works. That's a learning experience in itself.

I looked at the "lm_sendq" table in phpmyadmin and it showed 0 records, so I am guessing that means it's clear. If I have this problem again, I will be sure to save all the emails and will let you know.

Thanks for your help,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / ListMailPro Keeps Sending Same Message

« on: June 28, 2007, 04:57:45 pm »

ListMailPro keeps sending the same email that I sent out on Sunday. It has done this twice this week. I have no scheduled emails set. The only reason that I know that this is happening is from one of my own email addresses that I use to subscribe to each list to test. I have received the same email twice this week that I sent on Sunday. I also imported several users from another mailing list script that I was using and am receiving a ton of the user has been unsubscribed because of bouncing, which most of the address are yahoo addresses and I know that yahoo has gotten even more strict lately.

What could be the cause of this?

Thanks,
Keith

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Email Web Hosting / 1&1 VPS?

« on: June 24, 2007, 01:22:30 pm »

Thanks Dean for explaining that. I thought that was the way it worked. I guess the best thing to do would be to hold out and purchase a dedicated server as soon as I can afford it. I was just looking at 1and1's vps that started at $29.95 and thought that was a good deal, but it kind of defeats my purpose if I still have to share the server resources still. I have also been looking at the dedicated servers at various hosts and, man, it's all confusing to this newbie!

Thanks,
Keith

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Email Web Hosting / 1&1 VPS?

« on: June 24, 2007, 12:36:32 am »

Hello,

I have been looking at 1&1's virtual private server plans and was wondering if anyone here has any experience with them? Is a vps similar to having your own dedicated server? Do they usually have the same email limits as on a shared plan?

I have emailed them with my questions and thought I would ask here while I await their reply.

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / Unable To Connect

« on: June 09, 2007, 07:01:05 am »

I just got an email back from them and whatever they did, it works again now. Thanks everyone for your help.

Keith

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General Help & How-To / Unable To Connect

« on: June 07, 2007, 08:07:47 pm »

I just realized I haven't received the daily email summaries that I have been receiving each night when Dailymail runs. I logged into ListMail and seen that some of the automated followups haven't been sent for the last couple of days from the notice displayed at the top of the admin page. When I click the resume button, I then get the following error message:

Connecting to SMTP server...
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to localhost:25 in /home/*****/public_html/ar/admin.php on line 953
Server not found!
Failed.

Check your SMTP settings!
Your message has been saved for later.

I haven't changed anything lately and everything has been working fine up until the last couple of days. Is this an error message that could be caused by a change the web host made?

Thanks,
Keith

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General Help & How-To / Message Codes Question

« on: April 14, 2007, 06:12:10 am »

Is it possible to use message codes within a custom text message code? I want to create a !header and !footer message codes and use the first name, subscribe date, unsubscribe, etc. codes in them.

Thanks,
Keith