The below solution was suggested to me from Westhost Tech Support. Dear John, I've been looking into the issue further and I am seeing that what is happening is that Dada Mail is not properly closing MySQL connections. Your MySQL server allows a maximum of 100 concurrent connections. A typical MySQL connection lasts for a few milliseconds -- a connection is established, the program runs a query to get some information from the database, then the connection is closed. Dada Mail for some reason is never c ...Continue Reading

It just quit again. To be more specific, when it kicks out of the Monitor screen after having stalled the error reads thus: Program Error (Server Error 500) can't connect to db:  at /DADA/App/Guts.pm line 625 Same as prior message below================= Mine is doing the same thing as described by Carl K., below.  It finally quits, sending with a 500 server error on mail.cgi and I have to restart the vps to get it going again.  (I'm on a semi-dedicated hosting account with Westhost).  ...Continue Reading

Mine is doing the same thing as described by Carl K., below.  It finally quits, sending with a 500 server error on mail.cgi and I have to restart the vps to get it going again.  (I'm on a semi-dedicated hosting account with Westhost).  This has only started happening with my upgrade to 3.0, including a mysql backend. I spoke to Westhost support and they tell me that there are no problems with sendmail or the server.  It is not backed up, no messages are queued. The bandwidth is not choked. ...Continue Reading

I've open a series of bugs regarding the mailing monitor: 2204797 3.0.0 - This Mass Mailing will be queued msg has wrong info https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2204797&group_id=13002&atid=113002 2203242 3.0.0 - Sanity check for # of current mailouts wrong https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2203242&group_id=13002&atid=113002 2203220 3.0.0 - Stale Mailout can still clog up mail queue https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=2203220&group_id=13002&atid=113002 These bugs, f ...Continue Reading

I just put up a draft of a new chapter in the Dada Mail Manual re: Beatitude as a more user guide than installation guide. The installation guide has also been recently updated. Here's the user guide: http://dadamailproject.com/pro_dada/scheduled_mailings.html (You'll need a Pro Dada subscription to access this material) Any comments, send them my way, Cheers, ...Continue Reading

Hi Justin, I will try turning on tracing. While I am setting that up, here is some more information regarding the list restarting. 1) The problem SEEMED to go away when I unchecked Enable Batch Sending, but that is not the case. Today when I sent a larger list, it sent the first four but then stopped and never sent any more. So I have re-checked Enable Batch Sending because that at least keeps reloading until it finishes. 2) The problem is not just when sending emails. Today I was making some changes to the ...Continue Reading

On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:24 PM, John Collins wrote: > A blast (to 19000+) starts sending and gets about a third of the way > through and then gets slower and slower. I watch it on the 'monitor > your mailing' screen. Then the number sent doesn't change between > the 10 sec refresh time, or just a few. Then that screen shows a > message that says something like mailing will restart in 60 seconds. > After 60 seconds sometimes it just starts sending again or it opens > the blank window tha ...Continue Reading

On Oct 25, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Carl G. Kuczun wrote: >> 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? >> > Yes, unless there are more things to check. Try turning tracing on: http://dadamailproject.com/support/documentation-dada-3_0_0/error_faq.pod.html#making_the_error_log_more_ver ...Continue Reading

I have given upp trying to run DADA on windows, everything works fine EXCEPT sending messages. I get a 500 error on the line that does the fork (i did several hours of debuging.) It seems that some people have gotten it to work on windows. What did you use and how well does (did) it work? I have tried using: Windows XP or 2000 ActivePerl 5.6 or 5.8 Apache 2.2 On 10/25/08, Carl G. Kuczun wrote: > > Hmm. Unless you're using a Windows platform (and even then), this > shouldn't happen - it means either somethi ...Continue Reading

Hi Justin, My list reloading problem does not happen if I uncheck: Sending Options/Enable Batch Sending. It is only failing when I use batch sending. Please see my answers to your questions after your comments: > 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 ...Continue Reading