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General Help & How-To / Dean, want to sell Listmail?
« on: July 10, 2009, 09:58:48 pm »
I wanted to chime in here too.

I started using LMP in 2002. I still check into this forum occasionally just to see if there is any news on Dean. He and I used to converse regularly.

LMP still has a nice set of features. But, for it to move forward, a lot of the code needs an overhaul. I think it's got a lot of old, legacy code that occurred during its long history. I still use LMP and make modifications as I need them, but I can't recommend it to new people anymore since Dean is AWOL. It may be a dead end. :(

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Customization, Integration / Some basic help please
« on: June 11, 2009, 10:31:12 pm »
I have never seen the edit controls you show in your version 1.86b and I have been using ListMail for many years. My guess is that someone patched or enhanced your 1.86b version to have those edit controls. I am not aware of how that patch would be done. It might be documented somewhere in this forum.

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General Help & How-To / Can anyone install LMP for me?
« on: February 10, 2009, 01:50:09 pm »
I can probably help you. I have been using ListMail for many years. Please contact me off-list to decide how to proceed.

My email address is:  chris (at) smartsound.com

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General Help & How-To / Stops Sending
« on: December 26, 2007, 12:22:43 pm »
I disabled the resume cron job and still have the same results. One additional data point is that it seemed to send more before stopping when the content of the email was smaller. I sent a text-only email and was able to send many more before it stopped. Now I am again sending a larger HTML email and it is stopping after about 1800 emails.

Any other ideas of what to check? Thanks.
Chris

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General Help & How-To / Stops Sending
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:27:07 pm »
I know there have been a number of posts about this, but nothing has helped my situation yet.

I recently moved from an old, slow dedicated server to a newer, faster one. On the old server, LMP would usually send all my emails without interruption. On my new server, it will always send between 1700 and 2100 messages and then stop- that is around 7-8 minutes. The web interface doesn't show any error message - it just stops updating the message count and the messages stop going out. I have set the "Reconnect Every" to 999 (as I had it on the old server. I turned on the SMTP logging feature and found nothing out of the ordinary at the end of the log. No error messages - just the same set of connect and success lines for every message in the log.

Since I am sending more messages than the reconnect setting (999), I don't think that is the problem. With no errors in the SMTP log, I don't know what else to try.

Thanks,
Chris

PS I do have the resume cron script hooked up running every 10 minutes, so the sending resumes automatically. I just know it could take less time if it didn't keep stopping.

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Email Web Hosting / To VPS or not?
« on: December 01, 2007, 08:26:34 am »
I just started using lunarpages.com.
So far so good!  :D

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General Help & How-To / Issue with Custom Query in User Selection
« on: January 10, 2007, 09:56:22 am »
I created a complex custom query in the user selection area.
Code: [Select]
left join lm_users as B on lm_users.email = B.email and lm_users.uid != B.uid WHERE lm_users.cnf=1 AND  (lm_users.list = 4 or lm_users.list = 6 or lm_users.list = 8 or lm_users.list = 9) AND (B.email is NULL or B.list =4 or B.list =6 or B.list =8 or B.list =9) group by lm_users.email
This query selects everyone on list 4,6,8 & 9 who are not on other lists and groups by email to remove duplicates. (The people on the other lists will get a different email but I don't want anyone to get 2 emails). The above query was too long and the end was truncated when I saved it. I notcied that the 'q' field in Table lm_selectd was 'TinyText'. I changed that to 'Text' and the query was stored correctly.

Testing the query in the User Selection worked perfectly. However, when I went to actually send the message, there was a query error. It said that 'email' was an ambiguous field. Line 440 of selfunc.php does a condition between selecting '*' or selecting 'email,id'.  In my query, there are duplicate fields so that 'email' is ambiguous. I temporarily changed that line 440 to 'lm_users.email, lm_users.id' and then the whole thing worked.

I am not sure if you want to change this, but I wanted to let you know. Also, the above query might be helpful to others who are trying to accomplish a similar thing. This query may address this post:
http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=1440.0

Thanks.

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Development, Suggestions / Selectively SKIPPING followups based on Products?
« on: September 17, 2006, 08:11:00 am »
I have thought about this issue as well. I haven't come up with a complete solution, but I had an idea. Perhaps we could maintain a single user field with a list of product codes owned by the user. Then followups (as well as mass emails) could use user selection rules to choose appropriate followups. One trick there is making a procedure to keep the product field up-to-date.

Just my 2 cents.

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That did what I wanted. Thanks.

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So it looks like this issue hasn't come up for anyone else. Dean, what do you think? Can you direct me to the location in the code where the import/inter-list dependancies occurs? I'd like to look into reversing the order those actions are performed.

Thanks.

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I found something I consider a bug but it could be by design - what do  you guys think?

I have a list (let's call it "Registered List") that is set to automatically remove a user from a different list ("Demo List") when they subscribe. This is using the "When users are added to this list remove them from the following list(s):" feature. If I do a batch import of users to the registered list, I would expect it to also remove the users from the "Demo" list. However, if the user is already on the Registered list, it is seen as a duplicate and is not added but it then does not check to see if it should be removed from the Demo list.

So for me, I'd like the inter-list dependancies tested whether or not the email address is a duplicate - both for subscribes and for imports.

Is my description clear? Does that make sense? What do you think?

Thanks,
Chris

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Now that I am aware of it, I will avoid it. I will wait until it's been fixed. Thanks.

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Twice I have gotten this error:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
 Done!<br><br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  Cannot redeclare selection() (previously declared in /XXX/listmail/selfunc.php:7) in <b>/home/www1/public_html/listmail/selfunc.php</b> on line <b>6</b><br />

It happens when I have 2 scheduled emails to go out using daily mail. Both emails used user selections rules. I am still running version 1.85.

Has anyone had this problem? Thanks.

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Development, Suggestions / Bug in allowdupes
« on: March 10, 2006, 11:17:06 am »
If you use the 'allowdups' option and someone signs up for the second time to a list, the UID for that user gets set to '1' rather than retaining their previous UID as expected.

There is a typo in line 94 of signup.php where there are 2 commas in a row. Take out the double comma and it works again.

Code: [Select]
  if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0){
    list($xid,$xuid,$xcnf)=mysql_fetch_row($result); <-- this line
    if($xcnf=='2' || $xcnf=='0'){

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General Help & How-To / Re: At work on v1.85
« on: October 01, 2005, 08:32:39 am »
Quote from: "DW"
"Send From" emails on a per message basis are also under consideration.


This is something I need. To clarify, it is not that every single message gets a different "Send From", but rather when you send a message, you can override the from address so that it comes from a single address which is different from the default address set in the list settings. I have needed this because my list address might be sales@ but occasionally I need to send a message where I want the return address to be support@.

I could also use the ability to put "NOT" in user selection rules.

Thanks!

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