Pausing, Stopping, and Deleting a Direct Mailer Job

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You can pause a Direct Mailer job at any time. If you pause a Direct Mailer job, Direct Mailer stops processing the list of recipients, but you can restart it at a later time. Direct Mailer records which recipient it will process next, so that if the job is paused (for example, by shutting down the computer, or if a hard drive crashes) it can start approximately where it left off, once it is restarted. The recipients that were processed in the last one to one and a half seconds before the power shutdown may not receive their e-mail.

You can stop (terminate) a Direct Mailer job while it is running. Once a Direct Mailer job has been stopped you cannot continue from where it left off when it was stopped. You must restart the Direct Mailer job, and it will process from the beginning of the list of recipients.

You can delete a Direct Mailer job if the job has been stopped, completed, or if the job failed. You cannot delete a Direct Mailer job while it is running. If you delete a Direct Mailer job, all information about the job is deleted from Direct Mailer. You must recreate the job if you want to run it again.

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  • Pausing, stopping, and deleting a Direct Mailer job can only be done using the command line interface. You cannot use the Business Desk Campaign Manager module to pause, stop, or delete a Direct Mailer job.

To pause a Direct Mailer job from the command line interface

  1. At the command line, type DmlRun /list to display a list of all Direct Mailer jobs.

  2. Note the jobID number of the Direct Mailer job you want to pause, and then type:

    DmlRun /pause:<jobID number>

    The Direct Mailer job is paused.

To stop a Direct Mailer job from the command line interface

  1. At the command line, type DmlRun /list to display a list of all Direct Mailer jobs.

  2. Note the jobID number of the Direct Mailer job you want to stop, and then type:

    DmlRun /term:<jobID number>

    The Direct Mailer job is stopped.

To delete a Direct Mailer job from the command line interface

  1. At the command line, type DmlRun /list to display a list of all Direct Mailer jobs.

  2. Note the jobID number of the Direct Mailer job you want to delete, and then type:

    DmlRun /delete:<jobID number>

The Direct Mailer job is deleted.

See Also

Deleting and Restoring a Campaign Item

Managing and Controlling Direct Mailer jobs from the Command Line

Restarting a Direct Mailer job


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