Broadcast Issues...

[john193]

Hi Dean,

Christopher here. I was trying to send out a broadcast to my list. My first attempt using ListMailPro and well... I seem to have a little problem. See below the screen shot that I have and maybe you can shed some light.



I hope you can shed some light on what I'm missing here.

Thanks

Christopher

[DW]

Christopher,

Your host may be having a temporary problem or they could have limits on email per connection, hour, or day.  If the problem continues I highly recommend asking your host if they have any such limits.

Regards

[AlanT]

I'm on a VPS server and have removed all mail sending limitations, and yet I get that same error once in a while.

What I have determined in my case is that it happens when the server is running under a heavy load and is having problems keeping up with the pace.

My solution is usually to wait about 15 minutes and then resume the mailing.  That usually works.

[john193]

Hi,

I got the mailing to work. Had to change the configuration from the RECOMMENDED SMTP setttings to using the PHP stuff.  Not sure why...
Would really like to get the SMTP stuff to work however.

Also, noticed after the mailing got about 500+ bad emails -- I guess I expected that since I haven't mailed this list in months and with junk emails that people use -- well. You know the rest...

Anybody got experience getting bounce to work on their servers. I'd like to make sure that the JUNK emails are eventually removed and ONLY good emails remain in the list.

Christopher

[DW]

Christopher,

Which "management" software is installed on your server?  Is it CPanel or Plesk, perhaps?  If either of these I can provide specific instructions for setting up bounce processing via bounce.cgi as mentioned in the help:

http://www.listmailpro.com/help/cgi.html

Regards

[john193]

Hi Dean,

My dedicated server is using C-PANEL.  So the specific direction for implementing bounce.cgi so the bad emails get removed say after 3 mailings would be very nice.

Look forward to the process.

Thanks

Christopher

[DW]

Christopher,

There is a CPanel-specific help page for this:

http://www.listmailpro.com/help/cgi_cpanel.html

SMTP is recommended for stability... I recommend trying to solve the error.  Here's a potentially-useful Google Search

Note that if the "Return-path:" email header is not being set correctly in your PHP mail()-sent messages (welcome, confirm and, if enabled on the Config page, your list mailings too) you need to enable:

Code: [Select]

$phpmailf = 1;
in config.php

Regards

[john193]

Hi Dean,

Ok. So SMTP is supposedly more stable. Alright then, I will try my best to figure out HOW to get this thing to work. I have modified my config.php to include the

$phpmailf = 1;

setting where previously it was set to

$phpmailf = '';

Also, I reviewed your note on cPanel and I have a couple issues here but before I bring those up here is what settings I have under
Forwarding Maintenance

http://www.digitalpawsinc.com/mail/ErrorsToResolve/ForwardingSettings.jpg


Here is my question. I have setup a ton of signup-list.cgi scripts in my
cgi-bin starting with signup-list1.cgi upto past signup-list100.cgi

.i.e.

signup-list1.cgi
signup-list2.cgi
signup-list3.cgi
...
etic.. etc.

So with that in mind -- here is my question. Do I need to create in the
Forwarding Maintenance section an entry for

signup@digitalpawsinc.com         /home/digitalp/public_html/cgi-bin/signup-list1.cgi@digitalpawsinc.com

which uses signup-list2.cgi@digitalpawsinc.com, etc. etc. or are my
settings correct at this point ?

Thanks,

Christopher

[john193]

[john193]

Hi Dean,

As you can see I'm having a bit of trouble posting an IMAGE into the forum. I did it at the beginning.. but now it doesn't work. What am I missing.. besides a bit of sleep...

Christopher

[john193]

Hi Dean,

I hope you can shed some light here. Still the same error. What else could be wrong ?

Christopher :cry:

[DW]

Christopher,

You need a "pipe" character at the beginning and must remove the @domain.com from the alias

Your forwarder should look like this:

Email:

bounce@example.com

Forward to:

|/home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi

Regards

[john193]

Hi Dean,

This morning I modified the Forwarders for the bounce.cgi script

So how will I know that the bounce script is actually working ?  Will it
remove the bad emails after 3 trys going forward ?

Please advise...

Thanks

Christopher

[john193]

Hi Dean,

Just finished speaking with Dennis at ev1Servers.net technical support. And I believe I resolved a BIG problem with the Error 451 Temp Local Problem.

Apparently when sending email from my domain which resides on a dedicated server, I setup that domain to be on it's OWN IP address.  So in order to address the 451 problem the key they tell me was to edit my reverse pointers which I did.

Now it will take anywhere from 6-12 hours for this change to propagate thru their system.  What the reverse pointers change does for email -- ensures that SPAMMERS cannot send email like it came from my server.  Due to the reverse DNS lookups -- I'm guessing...

Anyhow Dean, I've got one more tweak to make on the settings and I need your clarification on the matter of BOUNCES.

Here are the current settings for Bounces..

[john193]