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Mike,

Forking implies taking the existing code and improving upon it, not writing code from scratch.

I already build my own email software from scratch and it is better than Interspire Email Marketer, but I'm using it for my own ESP.  However given your post I'm toying with the idea of forking *that* code to sell to the crowd LMP was marketed to.

If you have an easy way to resell servers with reasonable IP blocks (like /27s) and RDNS let me know, maybe I can package and sell my software and send you the customers for hosting it.

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When did LMP become open-source?  

For a commercial application like this I don't think you can just make a fork and start selling it as your own.  But if that is the case then I don't mind giving myself free Private Label Source Code rights to it also.

I did sell email hosting services for LMP users a few years ago.  It was a bit of a nightmare, so I don't recommend it.

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Customization, Integration / 1.87d autoresume hacks...
« on: August 16, 2007, 02:03:23 am »
try changing it to:

resume=1&batid=$_GET[batid]&list=$list

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General Help & How-To / Please contact and help this guy!!!
« on: August 08, 2007, 03:32:44 pm »
Sounds good, thanks for your help :)

Best,
Tara

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General Help & How-To / Please contact and help this guy!!!
« on: August 07, 2007, 08:57:45 pm »
Dean,

<edit>, one of our customers and one of your customers is having trouble with contacting you.

Please, please, please contact him ASAP!!

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I still have not heard back from Dean at ListMail Pro. So far, I'm really disappointed with their lack of service. I submitted four requests through their contact form which says someone will get back to me within 24 hours and no one has ever gotten back to me. I have no problem receiving their autoresponder messages, though.

And, he (Dean) seemed to stop responding to my requests at ListMail Pro forum when I asked him how to get started with a server so I can use the LMP software. He said he could get me set up sending at least 100,000 per day and then disappeared when I asked him what to do next.

Please stop recommending them to other people until they get their acts together. They have provided anything *but* "stress free income". They have been the biggest hassle and time-waster.

I am really feeling I just should have used AutoResponse Plus at this point, which I'll probably do and return the ListMail Pro, and will likely post about my LMP trials and tribulations at Warrior's Forum, etc, to warn other marketers about their lack of service.

My computer crashed on Saturday and I could not find the password for their forum. I reset it through their system and it said it was active and yet would not let me in. Trying to log in 5 times, it locked me out completely for 30 minutes.

I'm sorry, but enough is enough. Those folks need to get their shit together like you guys. You can certainly teach them a thing or two about service. I'm really annoyed at how much time of mine they have wasted, after I invested $200 into their friggin' software.

Sorry to vent here, but enough is enough. I just need a good software and server to start sending messages. Right now, I'm feeling I wasted hundreds of dollars for nothing.

I hope you can understand my frustration and help me out here. So far, my experience with LMP has been very poor.

Thank you.

Kind regards,
<edit>

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Hey Dean,

I bought from the Denix guy at
http://www.simscripts.com/Scripts/Postfix-Multiple-Interfaces-Patch

That is what he charged me at the time for the source code.  Back then I was spending corporate cash from a previous business, so it wasn't coming directly out of my pocket.

I think the pricing he is giving you is much cheaper now, but I bought it prior to November 2005.

Also I think the pricing he's giving you is for installation to a server, not for direct access to the source code.

But anyway the version I have now is completely RAM-based and is configured normally in Postfix's main.cf file which is how it should have been written in the first place :roll:

I'm not that big of an advocate of freelancing...I guess because of my programming background.  Although GNU C on Linux isn't that much fun given that I haven't messed with C since college, LOL.

Best,
Tara

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Development, Suggestions / Visual Rich editor - WYSIWYG - FCKEditor
« on: August 05, 2007, 05:00:02 am »
Hi Alan,

You can use custom message codes...

Set !header to spit out your header and !footer to spit out your footer, you can include full HTML in the message codes.

Just wanted to point that out.  Not quite templating, but certainly usable.

Best,
Tara

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Hey Dean,

I was wondering if you happened to know the best ratio of IP's to emails.

I seem to remember reading about it somewhere, but haven't been able to find that post.

I'm trying to determine if I ought to purchase more IP's or if I have enough.

Also do you know of any hosting providers that allow you to allocate your own IP's directly from ARIN?  

If it shows up on IPWHOIS that your company owns the IP, and you own your own nameservers then the buck pretty much stops at you for any possible complaints I'd think.

Best,
Tara

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Hey everyone,

The simscripts postfix patch was programmed kind of sloppily.  I was using it for awhile but had some issues.

When you set it up then you put ip's into a flat-file, one ip per line.

When it runs, every time you make a connection it:

    opens up the flat-file
    reads the top IP
    appends that IP to the bottom
    then re-writes the file.

As you can imagine when it does this dozens of times per second, it slows things down with all of the file I/O and each SMTP instance waiting on file locks.

So I was rather disappointed that with $2000 invested in obtaining the source code, the author was so sloppy and didn't bother to assist me with any tech support. :(

So what I did to fix this was write to my own multiple IP hack for Postfix, so now you simply define the IP's you want within the main.cf file.

Then Postfix loads the IP's into memory once and rotates between them completely in memory.

That really speeds things up.

If someone wants the patch, drop me a PM and we can work something out.

Best,
Tara

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I do think that InnoDB made a big difference.

Mainly because it implements row-level locking as opposed to table-level locking.

Therefore it can run concurrent updates...which really speeds things up with the bounce processing, automated scomp removals, and some of my own custom hacks (to segment people onto different lists based on what they clicked on) going full-force.

When my table hit 2 million records it was taking forever to do an update because everything was waiting in line for the lm_users table to unlock...so some queries were taking several minutes.

I'm glad I could help out with the yahoo problem.  Let me know if those tweaks fixed your issue.

Best,
Tara

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Glad I could help :)

Make sure also to switch lm_users to InnoDB and use the transaction hack I posted recently to vastly improve mysql performance if you have a very large lm_users table (I would say over 500k records)

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I also added all this stuff to the bounce.cgi, some of which you had mentioned before and some of which I've found to be some of my own common deferral issues:

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if(index($email,'THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'temporarily deferred')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'temporarily off-line')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'temporarily suspended')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'mailbox is full')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'over quota')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'retry timeout')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'timed out')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'try later')>-1){ exit; }
if(index(lc $email,'mailbox temporarily disabled')>-1){ exit; }


Preventing bounces and then allowing postfix to re-send soon after a deferral has corrected the majority of my recent delivery issues

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Hi Dean,

I don't recall the source of the information.  But it fixed the problem.

in /etc/postfix/master.cf add:

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yahoosucks       unix    -       -       n       -       -       smtp
        -o smtp_connect_timeout=10 -o smtp_helo_timeout=10


in /etc/postfix/transport add:

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yahoo.com       yahoosucks:


You might also want to add hotmail or other "deferral" hosts in that file as well.

in /etc/postfix/main.cf add:

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transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
deadbeats_destination_concurrency_limit = 50


I also tweaked these settings...your mileage may vary here:

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default_process_limit = 1000
default_destination_recipient_limit = 250
smtpd_error_sleep_time = 0


then of course do a #postmap transport followed by a #postfix reload

That is a quick and dirty "hack"...also you might want to play with the timeouts, ranging from like 5 to 20 instead of 10 to test efficiency.

The Postfix team has also added several new items very recently to directly address these types of problems and improve performance.

You'll really want to upgrade to version 2.4.5, as the last several releases (specifically .3, .4, and .5) have added additional measures to fight the new "deferral" crap that not just yahoo is doing.

Best,
Tara

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With the hacks I've done here:

http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=1956.0

Plus several tweaks to Postfix to correct the Yahoo issues (postfix actually has a patch for yahoo's recent BS) and also rotating IP's I am able to send out roughly 1.2 million per day with one server.

This is without pissing off my ISP or getting blocked by Yahoo (who accounts for perhaps 20% of my list)

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Customization, Integration / 1.87d autoresume hacks...
« on: July 28, 2007, 08:13:00 am »
Quote from: "prepress forums"
The javascript sounds good.  I have a server that has wGet disabled because of security issues.  One question.  That 90000, and 60000, how long of a refresh is that?


90 seconds and 60 seconds respectively.

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When you say "around line 1729" etc.

Is that to say that anywhere in that area would be fine?  Because usually a mod like this will instruct "The Code" to locate, then insert on line above or below "The Code"  

With this general instruction, if an update changed the file adding/deleting 20 lines or something, then the hack would possibly not work because the point of reference to insert has moved with evolution of the original files..  Please advise on more detailed location.  OR, maybe specify that since it's javascript, it doesn't matter.


It is just inside of the echo statement at the bottom of the outputting string around like 1729.  I don't know the exact line because I didn't pay attention prior to modifying the code.

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