Mailing Lists And Batch Email Software

[antandsons]

I checked the mail logs and found out that some of the emails that are being sent from my account are getting blocked as it is crossing the hourly limit set on the server. Support said that I needed to use a batch email software program. Any ideas on how I go about doing this?

 

Help needed ASAP

[TCH-Thomas]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

 

I believe that what they are asking you to use is something like DADA Mail or something similar. I know there are also a bunch of these kind of scripts at Hot Scripts.

Edited June 3, 2005 by TCH-Thomas

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums antandsons

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the forums, antandsons!

[antandsons]

Thanks for the welcome! I love TCH so far. How can I use Dada Mail or Hot Scripts to help me avoid being over the limit when i send out emails to my 3,300 newsletter list?

[TCH-Bruce]

Please open a support ticket with the help desk and they will provide you with the limits to use when setting up your list.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forums, antandsons

 

Dadamail can be set to a batch mode for your list.

In the batch mode you set how many e-mails are sent out per hour.

[antandsons]

How can it be set to batch mode through dada mail? I am currently trying to download and install the program but it is a bit complicated.

[TCH-Don]

After you install Dadamail, create a list

log into the list

choose Sending Options

check Enable Batch Sending

[antandsons]

That is the hard part, I am having a difficult time installing dada mail. Is there anyone that can help me to do this?

 

I would appreciate it very much

Edited June 5, 2005 by antandsons

[TCH-Don]

Tell us what steps you have done so far

and what errors are you seeing.

[antandsons]

http://www.antandsons.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi

 

I try to log on to that after installation, but it doesnt come up with the program, which means I have not properly installed dada.

 

What happens to the config.pm file i changed, where does that go?

[antandsons]

Log into your hosting account using your FTP program and navigate to your cgi-bin. In your cgi-bin, create a directory called, dada. Navigate into the dada directory you just created.

 

Upload the mail.cgi script and the DADA directory from the distribution that you downloaded into this newly created directory (dada) that's in your cgi-bin.

 

Do I log into this through the file manager on cPanel?

 

I think once I upload the program, it will finally work. What is the Dada directory?

Edited June 5, 2005 by antandsons

[antandsons]

I have uploaded and it now says under the error log:

 

[2005-06-05 19:09:54]: error: file has no execute permission: (/home/antsons/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi)

[TCH-Bruce]

cgi scripts need to be set to 755 on permissions for them to work.

 

Using an FTP client or the file manager in cpanel, locate the script and change the permissions. If you use cpanel you have to check the boxes. First set should all be check, second and third sets the read and execute boxes should be checked.

[antandsons]

Just changed it and still does not work.

 

It says here: Make sure you uploaded the mail.cgi script and all the script files as 'ASCII' and not binary.

 

 

What other scripts am I uploading including the rest of the DADA directory?

Edited June 5, 2005 by antandsons

[antandsons]

Last question...possibly.

 

How do I upload the dada folder into cpanel?

[TCH-Don]

if you do not want to use an ftp program

in cpanel goto file manager

 

first select create folder while you are in the root folder (above public_html)

on the right type in dada_files

 

then click on the folder icon for public_html

continue going down into the cgi-bin

select upload file

browse to your unzipped dadamail folder called dada

(where you edited config.pm as per the install instructions)

select the folder and upload

in file manager find mail.cgi and click on the name and select change permissions

click in the check boxes to change to 755

and follow the rest of the instructions.

[antandsons]

I dont think you can upload the dada folder or any folder for that matter in cpanel...

[TCH-Don]

No, you have to find the link to

file manager

in cpanel

then you can use file manager to navagate

create folders

upload files.

[antandsons]

Do you manually have to upload the files in cpanel under file manager. It will not accept whole folders.

[TCH-Don]

Ok try zipping the dada folder back up after you edit it

upload the dada.zip to the cgi-bin

select the name dada.zip (not the folder icon)

then on the right select extract.

 

hang in there we will get this working.

[antandsons]

Ok try zipping the dada folder back up after you edit it

upload the dada.zip to the cgi-bin

select the name dada.zip (not the folder icon)

then on the right select extract.

 

hang in there we will get this working.

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I uploaded this file: dada-2_9_1.tar

the unzipped one, i think this is the one you meant) to the cgi-bin.

 

 

But when I try to extract, it just brings up a page like this: http://www.antandsons.com:2082/frontend/x/...=dada-2_9_1.tar

 

and fails to extract them into the file manager.

 

 

BTW, i very much appreciate this help

Edited June 6, 2005 by antandsons

[TCH-Don]

Ok I meant after you uncompressed the origional dada-2_9_1.tar.gz

on your computer and edit the config.pm as per their instructions in the link above

 

then you zip up the dada folder yourself

and up load your zipped up file.

 

or you can use an ftp program as in the instructions.

[antandsons]

Oops, just checked, it did extract properly. Now let me see if it works

[antandsons]

The $FILES variable has been set to:

/home/antsons/dada_files

 

Warning! It does not seem that this directory exists.

 

You're Public HTML directory is:

/home/antsons/public_html

Usually, this directory is below your home directory. A good guess on where your home directory would be located is:

/home/antsons

It is suggested that you set the $FILES variable to be a directory that's in your home directory.

 

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

It works except for that one error

 

What directory should I use?

Edited June 6, 2005 by antandsons

[TCH-Don]

If not, check your PM (personal messages).

 

If so then follow the install instructions linked above for creating the

home/your-tch-user/dada_files folder

and change

home/your-tch-user/public_html/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi permissions to 755

then run the

http://your-tch-domain/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi

[TCH-Don]

Ok you are close,

you need to edit the config.pm

 

change the permissions of mail.cgi

 

and create the dada_files folder above your public_html folder

 

look at the PM I sent you for more help on editing the config.pm file

[antandsons]

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS INSTALLED

 

Warning! Your Dada Mail Root Password ($PROGRAM_ROOT_PASSWORD) has not been encrypted. Please consider encrypting your Dada Mail Root Password as soon as possible. Click here to encrypt a password. For more information, please consult the Config.pm documentation.

 

I just need to fix that

 

Now to adding my mailman mailing list to this program

 

Any suggestions on how I can integrate the two?

Edited June 6, 2005 by antandsons

[TCH-Don]

Wahoo

I ignore that, because as soon as I create a list I edit the config.pm to set the password

 

=cut

 

$PROGRAM_ROOT_PASSWORD = 'put-your-password-here';

 

=podd

 

to

 

=cut

 

$PROGRAM_ROOT_PASSWORD = '';

 

=podd

 

so it can't be used to create a new list until I put the password back.

[TCH-Don]

after you create a list

look at /home/your-tch-user/dada_files/name-of-your-list.list

this is a text file and you could edit it to add from annother list.

Thats all I can suggest as I have never looked at mailman.

But you should be alright now as soon as you create your new list.