I dig up some older messages about the email all users, queue, and log.
Having just fixed a qmail problem on my server I now have email working and have been testing some things.
Few questions come up now though.
I have two members and I sent a custom email to all members explaining the problem and that they were in fact validated. Anyhow, upon sending the email I am notified that 2 emails have been dispatched.
I had QUEUE on. A few minutes later I had the log entry for one of the member email addresses.
After reading about the QUEUE and how it triggers on page loads I refreshed my main index figuring that was needed to confirm the second email was sent -- show up in the log.
Noda. Still nothing in the log but the one.
So I read about how the separate copy of the mass emails was a bug in early 3.x versions.. but I didn't see any clarification if there should be any indication of multiple recipients in the 1 single email log entry.. Which there isn't in my case.
WHich brings be to a few pointed questions:
1. how many index.php loads trigger the queue dispatching? 2. what should be in the log after a mass email of all members?
..and possibly a bug:
- member name of "Serious Sam" - Send this email to members where their [name] [contains] Serious - preview - send
The log shows a blank TO column so I am not sure where the problem is. Matching the 'contains' query, preview clobbering the match or the log not logging it with a match..
For a bulk email, there is normally one log entry -- it would just make the log less useful to clutter with a thousand copies. The 'to' is empty because it's a bulk email not sent to a specific person but a bunch of people.
I send bulk emails (newsletters) for one of my forums. I have two accounts, an admin account and a test account. When they both get an email, I know it obviously worked. One account really works just as well to test.
The only reason an admin would not get a bulk email is if you specified in some way to not send to an admin.
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I dig up some older messages about the email all users, queue, and log.
Having just fixed a qmail problem on my server I now have email working and have been testing some things.
Few questions come up now though.
I have two members and I sent a custom email to all members explaining the problem and that they were in fact validated. Anyhow, upon sending the email I am notified that 2 emails have been dispatched.
I had QUEUE on. A few minutes later I had the log entry for one of the member email addresses.
After reading about the QUEUE and how it triggers on page loads I refreshed my main index figuring that was needed to confirm the second email was sent -- show up in the log.
Noda. Still nothing in the log but the one.
So I read about how the separate copy of the mass emails was a bug in early 3.x versions.. but I didn't see any clarification if there should be any indication of multiple recipients in the 1 single email log entry.. Which there isn't in my case.
WHich brings be to a few pointed questions:
1. how many index.php loads trigger the queue dispatching?
2. what should be in the log after a mass email of all members?
..and possibly a bug:
- member name of "Serious Sam"
- Send this email to members where their [name] [contains] Serious
- preview
- send
The log shows a blank TO column so I am not sure where the problem is. Matching the 'contains' query, preview clobbering the match or the log not logging it with a match..
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For a bulk email, there is normally one log entry -- it would just make the log less useful to clutter with a thousand copies. The 'to' is empty because it's a bulk email not sent to a specific person but a bunch of people.
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Hmm, the TO wasn't empty for the first example, when I didn't use any matching criteria.
Short of customizing the msg header with a CC: or Return-Receipt-To: I take it there isn't any way to confirm bulk messages have been sent?
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Check that you got them, obviously.
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huh? I'm not bulk e-mailing myself and what I have done with this appears to purposly not send to the admin member, which is the account I use.
..or do I 'obviously' consider that since admin didn't get a copy of the bulk e-mail that it's not sending?
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I send bulk emails (newsletters) for one of my forums. I have two accounts, an admin account and a test account. When they both get an email, I know it obviously worked. One account really works just as well to test.
The only reason an admin would not get a bulk email is if you specified in some way to not send to an admin.