Justin J wrote: I have "Fast CGI" enabled in the site control panel Dada Mail doesn't use Fast CGI, so this isn't going to have much effect. Please add it to the "wish list" From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI <snip> Implementation details Instead of creating a new process for every request, FastCGI can use a single persistent process which handles many requests over its lifetime. Processing of multiple requests simultaneously is achieved either by using a single ...Continue Reading

I just wanted to give everyone an update on the localization project: Before I can even begin work on tweaking Dada Mail for working with the localization scheme, I have to get Dada Mail working with fancier encodings than Latin1. As you may have noticed, Dada Mail's unicode (UTF-8) support is a little *cough* spotty at best. Things break. If the message sends out fine, the archive doesn't look too nice (or vice-versa - oh! the agony!) The process to get Dada Mail in shape in regards of this has been very, very, ...Continue Reading

Justin J wrote: There's two features in Dada Mail that can make this faster. One is the, Adjust Sleep Time feature, that tries to remove some of the time actual message sending takes from the batch time, so that the sending time for the entire mailing list is more similar to the estimate. Since you have such a huge batch, and such a small batch time, you're not going to see much difference. The other is Use One SMTP Connection per Batch (Experimental) Which allows you to send a batch with just one conne ...Continue Reading

On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:16 PM, John Collins wrote: > Quick question first: If a mass mailing is started with a certain set of settings are the settings encapsulated in the email? No. > What I mean is, if the sending is paused and settings are changed and the sending is started again, does it continue with the original settings or does it adopt the new settings? (Example: smtp to sendmail, batches to non-batches) It depends if the process is still running. Things that make the process stop running, in this case, ...Continue Reading

Justin- I really hate to continue to bring this up because I really like your program.  The features are great as is your support on this list.  I'm not being critical, I'd just like to find a solution. Quick question first: If a mass mailing is started with a certain set of settings are the settings encapsulated in the email?  What I mean is, if the sending is paused and settings are changed and the sending is started again, does it continue with the original settings or does it adopt the ne ...Continue Reading

Well, OK, "launched" is a little lofty of a term, but this is now up: http://dev.dadamailproject.com/ Which is currently a one-page FAQ on lots of developer stuff. I hope to flesh this out and move over the more developer-centric stuff from the main site to this site. I get a lot of complaints that there's too much technical stuff on the main site. People get confused. I'm also thinking of just having this all saved up on github itself, so the developer site itself can be edited by just about, anyone, ...Continue Reading

On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:54 PM, John Collins wrote: > Curious about something. I'm cleaning out old logs and and other various items and I noticed that there is both a boucews.txt log that keeps a scorecard plus there is a table in the DB that seems to do the same thing. Why? Can one be eliminated? I see the log contains a lot more info, but this is the first time I've really looked at it so it may not be all that important to me. The db only holds the scores, per list/subscriber and the log holds the entire re ...Continue Reading

Curious about something.  I'm cleaning out old logs and and other various items and I noticed that there is both a boucews.txt log that keeps a scorecard plus there is a table in the DB that seems to do the same thing.  Why?  Can one be eliminated?  I see the log contains a lot more info, but this is the first time I've really looked at it so it may not be all that important to me.  Justin J wrote: On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:28 AM, John Collins wrote: There are no mailings going out now ...Continue Reading

On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:28 AM, John Collins wrote: > There are no mailings going out now or until tomorrow so I'll delete them all. What about the Cache folder within the tmp folder? A couple of those items are related to the last sending, which is now complete. They are? I'd remove that directory, as well. > Another oddity. When inside the admin screen, if I click the "Manage List > Sending Options" link, I get the "Sign up for a list" screen, even though the link in the browser window ...Continue Reading

Justin J wrote: On Feb 7, 2010, at 10:26 AM, John Collins wrote: What I was wondering was if there was any reason that v4 would slow it down. I saw it wrote to a log that was recording all of the mail as it was being sent (can't find where it's stored), That list didn't show any errors, all 29+k went out smoothly, but I wondered if it took precious time to write to that log. I could do without it. I don't think this is the source of the slowdown, as this log is being written anyways, just in a different place in ...Continue Reading