Restarting a Direct Mailer Job

If a Direct Mailer job stops before it completes processing, Direct Mailer updates the job status, indicating that the job has stopped and did not complete successfully. You use the DmlRun /list command from the command line interface to view the Direct Mailer job. To automatically return the job status on the console, you use the /wait option. For information about viewing Direct Mailer job status, see Monitoring Direct Mailer Jobs.

If a Direct Mailer computer stops, (for example, if the hard drive crashes) all Direct Mailer jobs that are running on that computer stop. If a Direct Mailer job stops before it completes processing, you must manually restart the jobs that were stopped. After the job is restarted, it will start approximately where the job left off. That is, it will start within n of where it left off, where n=number of threads configured in the Direct Mailer.

For example, assume a job is created to send 200,000 e-mails, and it stops at 50,000 e-mails. Regardless of the reason the job stopped, when you restart the job, it will start processing the next 150,000 e-mails.

To restart a Direct Mailer job

  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 restart, and then type:

    DmlRun /run:<jobID number>

The Direct Mailer job is restarted.

See Also

Managing and Controlling Direct Mailer Jobs from the Command Line

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