Re: v6.0.0 RC1 Released

 
From: "Bruce Harper" <bharper@PROTECTED>
In-Reply-To: v6.0.0 RC1 Released
Date: December 14th 2012
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Justin wrote:

Hello everyone,

RC1 of v6.0.0 has been released - download links, etc, can be found on the install page:

As much as I like Dada Mail and will continue to use and support it (and mention it as a good bulk mailing program), I have to tag this version "not ready for prime time." I am the tech support for the Virginia Tech Daily Email, which sends out four versions of a message every weekday morning (one HTML for all faculty/staff, a text version [those few people want real text, not a text-like message due to the mail programs they use], a public HTML version, and a plain text version). There is also a weekly version sent to all students every Wednesday. All of these use the Scheduled Mailing plugin and launch agents (the program is on a Mac running OS X 10.5, so no cron jobs) to send the messages to the university web server. I have been at ver. 5.0.1 since it was released, since upgrading to the next version didn't work -- the mailings were not sent concurrently, but queued to go out consecutively. This greatly extended the mailing time from a total of about 36 minutes (the largest mailing was to 9683 subscribers) to several hours. Everything worked fine with 5.0.1, so I was happy.

I decided on Thursday to try the upgrade to 6.0 (treading badly on the "don't use .0 versions") to take advantage of the code upgrades and improvements. I am now back in the office on what was to be a day off, reverting to 5.0.1 so I could get three of the four mailings sent after 6.0 failed miserably. The first problem is that it, too, queues up mailings instead of sending them concurrently. I don't know if that is a new feature or a bug, but if there were a way to change that, I would be happy.

So I got up at 6:30 a.m. and checked my gmail mailbox and there was only one of the four messages there. I figured that it was the consecutive issue again and logged into Dada Mail to see where things were. I had three mailings queued, with the active one stuck on "needs to be restarted" and "restart in progress" as reported in the "Monitor Your Mailings" screen. When I got to the right list to be able to click on the link to see the actual progress, I was screwed. Everything on the top and left of the screen came up, but the actual progress bar never appeared; then the screen refreshed and continued to do so every 5 seconds. I tried to kill the mailing from the Monitor screen and clicking on the red X did get me a message that the mailing had terminated, but that was false -- it was still going on, stuck in the restart loop. I finally had to go into terminal mode, ssh into the machine, and delete the mailing details folder in the .dada_files/.tmp directory. That solved that problem, but when the next mailing moved up in the queue, the same thing happened -- it hung in the must restart/restarting loop. I had to delete two more directories to kill the process. Now I'm at work, where I backed off to 5.0.1 and re-sent those mailings, this time without any problems.

I can file a bug report on Monday (I'm headed home now), but here is a snippet of the log from the .tmp directory (there wasn't anything out of the ordinary in the system.log):

[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] Queueing is enabled.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] $status->{queue_place} 0
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] This message is below the mailout limit and shouldn't have delays in sending.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] $status->{percent_done} is reporting 0
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] $batch_size has been set to: 180
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] About to fork off mass mailing...
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:01 2012] Mass Mailing Starting.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] mass mailing is reporting that it should be restarted.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] Queueing is enabled.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] $status->{queue_place} 0
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] This message is below the mailout limit and shouldn't have delays in sending.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] $status->{percent_done} is reporting 0
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] $batch_size has been set to: 180
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] About to fork off mass mailing...
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:28 2012] Mass Mailing Starting.
[Fri Dec 14 07:22:32 2012] mass mailing is reporting that it should be restarted.

Like I said, I'm a big fan of this program (I'm adding two lists for another department to help them with a problem), but I think I'll wait until 6.1 before I try another upgrade.

Bruce in Blacksburg
Virginia Tech Webmaster
Web Communications/University Relations

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