sending

[dean2]

thanks for the last anser dean, as you know i have just changed to smtp but it stoped sending for some reason and there are 700 emails still in the queue to be sent but when i press resume mailing it tells me as per below there is no emails to be sent

Connecting to SMTP server... Connected!
Authenticating User/Pass... Authenticated!

Delaying.. Please wait..
If your mailing stops for any reason, close the window or . Do NOT Refresh!

Sending Mail  of 700..

Sending error. Check your mail settings.

Server said: 503 No recipients specified

[DW]

It's possible that ListMail has become confused with a server's response due to a certain email address being on your list.

To see what's really going on uncomment a line in admin.php to enable SMTP debug messages:

// debug, shows SMTP messages
// $bugs = '1';

should become:

// debug, shows SMTP messages
$bugs = '1';

Note that this will output a LOT of SMTP messages when sending email to your list. These messages can only be seen when doing a "Send Email" to your list, not with scheduled email.

Please let me know the last few SMTP responses when outputting the extra messages and the mailing fails.

[dean2]

PIPELINE-FROMmsg=250 Sender Ok .
RCPT TO: <balice73@yahoo.com.au>
RCPTmsg=250 Recipient Ok
DATAmsg=354 Ok Send data ending with . .
SENDmsg=250 Message received: 20040615090739.XQAE5317.smta00.mail.ozemail.net@localhost .

PIPELINE-FROMmsg=250 Sender Ok .
RCPT TO: <newport@iinet.net.au>
RCPTmsg=250 Recipient Ok
DATAmsg=354 Ok Send data ending with . .
SENDmsg=250 Message received: 20040615090742.XQBE5317.smta00.mail.ozemail.net@localhost .

PIPELINE-FROMmsg=250 Sender Ok .
RCPT TO: <dturner@winnet.com.au>
RCPTmsg=250 Recipient Ok
DATAmsg=354 Ok Send data ending with . .
SENDmsg=250 Message received: 20040615090746.XQBR5317.smta00.mail.ozemail.net@localhost .

PIPELINE-FROMmsg=250 Sender Ok .
RCPT TO: <porellana@vtown.com.au>
RCPTmsg=250 Recipient Ok
DATAmsg=354 Ok Send data ending with . .
SENDmsg=250 Message received: 20040615090748.XQCF5317.smta00.mail.ozemail.net@localhost .

PIPELINE-FROMmsg=250 Sender Ok .
RCPT TO: <>
RCPTmsg=553 Null recipient not accepted
DATAmsg=503 No recipients specified .

Sending error. Check your mail settings.

Server said: 503 No recipients specified

[DW]

Have you been inserting users with a custom script?  Perhaps there is an entry in your database with a blank email address.

Could this be?

[dean2]

thanks dean, thats strange , how do i check for a blank address?

I've made the changes to the admin.php that you suggested but im also having problems with the bounced emails from the list which are not being deleted from the system..what could i be doing wrong here? (they are curently being bounced to another email address)
thanks
dean

[dean2]

hi dean

you must be on holidays you deserve one!

i have fixed all the problems so thanks for that except one..that is the bounced emails are not being deleted from the mail list ...i have set it up as per instructions but must have missed something..do you know what that could possible be?

thanks dean

dean

[DW]

bounce.cgi can be tricky or impossible on some hosts.  What control panel software is your server running?

[BGSWebDesign]

Hi,

Check this info on Bounces, I can't get them to work either, but now it appears that adding Throttle code makes it work fine, see this post:
http://listmailpro.com/forum/index.php?topic=32.0

Good luck, let me know if it works for you.

[dean2]

thanks brett, i will take a look at it now

[dean2]

Not using Control panel software on that server dean. We run lots of cgi scripts on the server with no problems. It's a normal unix OS running apache with all the latest versions of software like php, cgi, mysql, etc.

[DW]

I wouldn't jump into the throttling code just yet.

For an email alias on a generic unix system you could (possibly) set it up in
/etc/aliases

Add a line such as:

bounce@site.com: "|/path/to/site/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi"

If your server uses smrsh to restrict access to programs via email you may need to give the bounce.cgi script permission

cd /etc/smrsh
ln -s /path/to/site/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi

Alternately, you could just allow perl

ln -s /usr/bin/perl

Then, set up your /etc/aliases file like so:

bounce@site.com: "|/usr/bin/perl /path/to/site/cgi-bin/bounce.cgi"

After editing /etc/aliases, be sure to run the command "newaliases"