Configuring email Notice Batches

The settings in the EmailNotices-local.properties file can help you alleviate some problems that may occur with sending day-end email notification:

Depending on your Internet Service Provider (ISP), there may be some system lag that causes a back-up of emails when sending batch notices, which may randomly cause some emails in the batch to not be sent.
Depending on your email service, the SMTP connection may time-out before all of the emails have been sent.

To configure the batch email delay

1 Open the EmailNotices-local.properties file in the SirsiDynix/Horizon directory.
2 Change the following values as needed.

Field

Action

DELAY

Specifies the delay to enforce between sending individual email messages.

If you experience ISP lag that tends to drop messages, you can specify a delay between messages so messages don't get skipped. The value of the delay is expressed in milliseconds.

No value entered (default): 1000 milliseconds.
Other numerical value: The number of milliseconds to wait before sending the next message.

BATCHSIZE

Specifies the number of emails to include in each email batch sent.

If your email service times out during sending large numbers of day-end email notifications, you can divide the messages into batches of specific sizes. After Horizon sends a batch, it disconnects the SMTP connection and reconnects to send the next batch.

"0" (default): All email messages are sent in a single batch.
Other numerical value: The number of email messages to include in a single batch.
3 Save the changes to the properties file.

 


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