Using Multiple Delivery Locations

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When Direct Mailer is configured to use multiple delivery locations, whether they are drop directories or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers, it uses the same list for every job running. Direct Mailer reads the list of locations from the Global Configuration Dictionary, which contains global configuration parameters shared over all the jobs running on all the sites. Direct Mailer does not sort the Global Configuration Dictionary or check it for duplicate entries.

If the Delivery Method property is set to local (2), Direct Mailer treats each entry in the list as a fully qualified path to the SMTP server pickup directory. If the Delivery Method property is set to remote (1), Direct Mailer expects each entry in the list to use the following format:

<SMTP server address>[: port]

Specifying the port is optional, but if it is not specified, Direct Mailer uses port 25.

When a Direct Mailer job is started, the first recipient in the direct mail list uses the first delivery location. The next recipient uses the subsequent delivery location. This delivery process is repeated until there are no new delivery locations. In this case, the delivery locations are recycled back to the first delivery location.

If a failure occurs in mailing, Direct Mailer does not re-try another location, nor does it perform timeout or availability checking. Therefore, any given recipient can only use the delivery location that is assigned them.

To use multiple delivery locations

  1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Global Resources, right-click Direct Mailer, and then click Properties.

  2. In the Properties dialog box, select Delivery Locations, and in the Selected Property Value box, type the fully qualified path to the drop directory or SMTP Server. Universal naming convention (UNC) paths are not supported.

For multiple delivery locations, separate each location with either a comma or semicolon. The comma and semicolon are the only supported delimiters used to separate different paths.

  1. Select Delivery Method, and in the Select Property Value box, type 2 to use local delivery, or 1 to use remote delivery.

  2. Click OK.

The new setting is applied immediately to all Direct Mailer jobs.


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