The screens all refer to "restarting", but the entries in the  errors.txt file refer to "reloading".  From your definitions, I  would say it is reloading because the emails do eventually send  sequentially.

Ah. That discrepancy is incredibly confusing. I'll pop open a bug and  get that fixed up.

It appears to send one email, then I get a message saying "Mailing  automatically restarting in 49 seconds." and that counts down to 0  and then the next email is sent.  This keeps repeating for each  email.  Occasionally I get a completely blank screen that just says  "restarting mailing..."

Hmm. Unless you're using a Windows platform (and even then), this  shouldn't happen - it means either something is mucking up with the  fork()ing process or the sleep()ing process. This happens on really  really cheap accounts. Are you on a dedicated server, or something  more like shared host? If it's a shared host, which one?


The other scenario when this happens is when you check the option:


     [ ] Restart Mailings After Each Batch

In the list control panel, under, Manage List -> Sending Options


Don't ever ever use this option, unless you really need to. It  basically does exactly what you're experiencing, which is less than  what you really want.

Sometimes after counting down to 0, the message doesn't send and it  needs to count down to 0 again.  This can cycle like this quite a  few times before the next email is actually sent.

OK;

I am attaching a document with all the screenshots I see while  trying to send a 3-recipient list, and the errors.txt log.

If you're interested in doing some further debugging, I can give you  directions on how to REALLY get some interesting debugging  information. For something like 3 subscribers, it may actually be easy  enough to slog through. Interested?

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On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Carl G. Kuczun wrote:

Hi Justin,

The screens all refer to "restarting", but the entries in the  errors.txt file refer to "reloading".  From your definitions, I  would say it is reloading because the emails do eventually send  sequentially.

It appears to send one email, then I get a message saying "Mailing  automatically restarting in 49 seconds." and that counts down to 0  and then the next email is sent.  This keeps repeating for each  email.  Occasionally I get a completely blank screen that just says  "restarting mailing..."

Sometimes after counting down to 0, the message doesn't send and it  needs to count down to 0 again.  This can cycle like this quite a  few times before the next email is actually sent.

The emails are being sent and received.

I am attaching a document with all the screenshots I see while  trying to send a 3-recipient list, and the errors.txt log.

Carl K

----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin J" <justin@PROTECTED >
To: "Dada Mail Developers Subscriber" <ckuczun@PROTECTED>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:51 PM
Subject:  Re: List Restarting

On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:34 PM, Carl G. Kuczun wrote:

I have been trying for the last week to figure out why my lists  keep restarting but have run out of ideas.  The errors.txt file  contains  the following lines:

What do you mean by, "restaring" - do you mean, restarting from the  absolute very beginning, or, restarting from where it seems to have  stopped? If it's the latter, user the word, "reload" :)


If it is the former, perhaps you want to know why the mailout is  
actually stopping: usually it's just because you've hit some sort  of  limit on how long a process can run on your hosting account.

Are you having the problem where the mailing just seems to try to  restart, forever and never *actually* restarts

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