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My colleague msafar-ali has documented his steps to automatic population and I added it to the Wiki as requested (albeit later than I had said).

I butchered the formating but the guts of it is there.

http://www.openemm.org/wiki/DatabasePopulation

Tim

My colleague has successfully built a DTS package in SQL Server 2000 which inserts, updates and deletes (not really deletes, actually we admin opt-out to preserve the statistics) the various tables in the openemm database. He will document the process and the lessons learnt for the community in this...

WARNING: My post above about reducing the time-outs did in fact result in a problem with at least one particular user receiving many copies of the same email. It turned out that the mail server was timing out AFTER the final stages of sending resulting in multiple attempts each reported as a time ou...

Before I begin, I suggest that you purchase O’Reilly’s sendmail 3rd editon by Bryan Costales and read chapter 6 from cover to cover. It is there were I learned this tip, and there are likely many other important tips in there that I did not implement or understand. Firstly, I found an important ...

Ok. Thanks!

Tim

Thank you! I will give it a shot and let you know.

Could I get your help in compiling a java class? I am useless in java and even though I installed ant, I am having a lot of trouble getting a compile of a single .java file.

If your able, let me know and we can chat offline.

Tim

My company uses this product as a replacement for a monthly service fee to a market leading email marketing company. We have several newsletters which we send out a few times per week. In total we send about 1 million emails per month to about 50,000 subscribers. We decided to bring the service in h...

Well, I found the file, its MailWriterMeta.java, and I believe the change needs to be made when it creates the XML file, something like whats below in the method public void startBlock () throws Exception { .. .. .. .. buf.append (" </description>\n\n"); buf.append (" <general>\n"...

My company maintains our email lists (with opt-in/opt-out etc) in a different location (both physically and architecture) . We are experimenting with populating the MySQL database tables directly, rather than using the Import feature. The challenge is that we have many different newsletters and opt-...

I am not sure how typical this is, but for the record, here is the specs on my machine. Its an single core 2.0 Ghz Pentium IV with 2 Gb of RAM running OpenSUSE 10.2. I have one network card connected. In my last three jobs of about 50,000 each, I have achieved an average of ~10,000 emails per hour. ...

Interesting. When I read your note, I checked the message envelope and sure enough, the envelope says "Testmail", see here: To: Testmail <tim.gilbert@XXXXX.XXX> Subject: TEST: Test Email However, using Outlook and MS Exchange, the TO: does not say Testmail rather it has converted my smtp n...

One of the problems that i have now is that when I sent out test emails to my testers (18 in all), there is nothing in the email to make it clear this is a TEST rather than the actual mailing. When I sent a Mailing to Test Recipients, the word "TEST: " should be added to the beginning of t...

I have spent quite a bit of time using OpenEMM over the past number of weeks, and I have also found that it can be quite slow in sending messages. It seems to get jammed up on the deferred emails. This is what I did to improve performance: 1) I added more RAM to the machine. The more ram the more in...

I solved this for OpenSuse. See here:

http://www.openemm.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1246#1246