I have been trying to run a email campaign on direct mailer, but the
emails are going out at a rate of only 2 a minute. The DM is setup to
process and send out emails as quickly as possible (with 'Messages Per
Hour' set to 0). The emails themselves are just 1kb and are not
personalised. Any ideas on how to speed up the DM?

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How do you have direct mailer configured, to run against an SMTP server or
to use an Exchange drop folder?
Is the mailing personalized (e.g. configured to hit ASP/ASP.NET page for
personalized content?)

I suggest configuring to use a drop folder and see if it drops the mail in
a timely manner in which case the problem would be on the SMTP side
(perhaps DNS name resolution is the problem?).

Thanks
-djm
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From: paritshah@gmail.com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.commerceserver.general
Subject: Direct Mailer
Date: 31 Mar 2005 07:42:37 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
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I have been trying to run a email campaign on direct mailer, but the
emails are going out at a rate of only 2 a minute. The DM is setup to
process and send out emails as quickly as possible (with 'Messages Per
Hour' set to 0). The emails themselves are just 1kb and are not
personalised. Any ideas on how to speed up the DM?

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I wasn't directly involved, but others in my company recently debugged a
similar symptom with Direct Mailer. What they found was that the mail
content included URLs that the Direct Mailer server was unable to resolve,
either because they were just wrong (typos) or because the network
configuration didn't allow the server to get to those URLs. It appeared as
though the server spent lots of time trying to resolve the URLs. Just one
more thing you can look for.

<paritshah@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1112283757.144347.121400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> I have been trying to run a email campaign on direct mailer, but the
> emails are going out at a rate of only 2 a minute. The DM is setup to
> process and send out emails as quickly as possible (with 'Messages Per
> Hour' set to 0). The emails themselves are just 1kb and are not
> personalised. Any ideas on how to speed up the DM?
>

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Thanks for your suggesiton. It is configured to run with a drop folder
and the emails are not personalised.


David Messner [MSFT] wrote:
> How do you have direct mailer configured, to run against an SMTP
server or
> to use an Exchange drop folder?
> Is the mailing personalized (e.g. configured to hit ASP/ASP.NET page
for
> personalized content?)
>
> I suggest configuring to use a drop folder and see if it drops the
mail in
> a timely manner in which case the problem would be on the SMTP side
> (perhaps DNS name resolution is the problem?).
>
> Thanks
> -djm
> --
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> You assume all risk for your use. =A9 2005 Microsoft Corporation.  All
rights
> reserved.
>
> --------------------
> From: paritshah@gmail.com
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.commerceserver.general
> Subject: Direct Mailer
> Date: 31 Mar 2005 07:42:37 -0800
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Lines: 6
> Message-ID: <1112283757.144347.121400@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.58.59.17
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"iso-8859-1"
> X-Trace: posting.google.com 1112283761 5035 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2005
15:42:41
> GMT)
> X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
> NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:42:41 +0000 (UTC)
> User-Agent: G2/0.2
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Gq
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>
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> s.google.com!l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
> Xref: TK2MSFTNGXA03.phx.gbl
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>
> I have been trying to run a email campaign on direct mailer, but the
> emails are going out at a rate of only 2 a minute. The DM is setup to
> process and send out emails as quickly as possible (with 'Messages
Per
> Hour' set to 0). The emails themselves are just 1kb and are not
> personalised. Any ideas on how to speed up the DM?

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I have taken the URL's out and that has sped things up significantly.
Thanks.

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Good to know, thanks.

I would imagine that if you change from using MHTML (embedded
images/objects) to HTML format (links) that this problem would not occur.

The docs have some information on how to do this - you have to include a
scriptor component to set some CDO flags - we didn't have time before
CS2002 ship to make this an out-of-box setting.

Regards
-djm
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From: paritshah@gmail.com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.commerceserver.general
Subject: Re: Direct Mailer
Date: 5 Apr 2005 02:07:35 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
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I have taken the URL's out and that has sped things up significantly.
Thanks.

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