Delivery Reports

ListManager can send the list administrators of a mailing list regular progress reports on how each mailing is progressing. The Delivery Report indicates when the message was attempted, how many members received it and when the next retry is scheduled (for the remaining member)

You have the option of also receiving a detailed SMTP report addendum to the delivery report, where every member who could not be sent to is detailed and the reason for each inability to send the message is given. This SMTP report addendum is about 10 lines of text for each member and so for large lists can be extremely long.

You have the option of setting Delivery Reports to go out at these intervals:

1) After the first delivery attempt of each message.

2) After the last delivery attempt of each message.

3) After the first and last attempt of each message.

4) After each delivery attempt of each message.

The delivery reports go to all the members of a list who are set to "receive admin mail".

Here is an example of a delivery report:

This is a notification of the progress made in sending a message.

You are receiving this notification because 'test'
is set to send delivery progress notifications to list admins.

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Current delivery status after 1 delivery attempts is:

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:39:55
- The ID number of this incoming mail message is: 8960

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:39:55
- This list posting is addressed to mailing list: 'test'

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:39:55
- Preparing to deliver outgoing email message.

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:39:55
- Created outgoing email job

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:40:31
- Successfully sent to 8 out of 11 remaining recipients (72%) in
36 seconds.

Delivery statistics:
* 8 successfully sent (72%)
* 1 members with transient problems (9%)
* 2 currently unreachable (18%)

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:40:31
- Next retry scheduled for: Wednesday, Feb 20 at 06:10 PM (in 30 minutes)

 

Recipients with "transient" problems may yet be delivered to in a retry. If a recipient's mailserver replies with a 500 or higher response, it is considered currently unreachable and will not be retried in this send.

Note that by default mailings sent to larger numbers of recipients (over 4,000,000) will be split into smaller groups, and each group will have separate delivery reports. To change the size of these groups, see Setting Server Options.