Bad Messages

Bad-Messages are messages that could not be sent by the Messaging Manager. This can happen if the SMTP The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a protocol of the Internet protocol family that is used to exchange e-mails in computer networks. It is primarily used to feed in and forward e-mails. Other specialized protocols such as POP3 or IMAP are used to retrieve messages. SMTP servers traditionally accept connections on port 25 ("smtp"). [Wikipedia] server is not available for a certain amount of time, for example.

These messages are saved as XML In computing, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable through use of tags that can be created and defined by users. files on the hard disk. Moreover, an e-mail is sent to a selected recipient, informing him of the fact that the message could not be sent correctly.

You can find the configuration data regarding the storage location of the Bad-Messages and the selected recipient as follows:

Under the installation of the Messaging Manager, you can find the file Isonet.MessagingManager.Service.exe.config.

Approximately the following lines can be found there:

<MessagingManagerConfiguration

messageQueuePath=".\private$\MessagingManager"

badMessageFolder="D:\Isonet\MessagingManager\BadMessages"

delivererPluginFolder="D:\Isonet\MessagingManager\Deliverers"

enableSendBadMsg = "True"

badMsgMailFrom = "name@firma.com"

badMsgMailTo = "name2@firma.com"

badMsgSmtpServer = "smtp.firma.com"

badMsgSubject = "MessagingManager-BadMessage!"

maxNrOfErrors = "10"

backupPath = "BadMessagesBackup"/>

The key badMessageFolder contains the folder, in which the Bad-Messages are stored. The key badMsgMailTo contains the address of the recipient to be informed, when a message could not have been sent.

In the following table, you will find the description of the keys:

Key	Description
messageQueuePath	Path to the message queue (system)
badMessageFolder	Path, in which the Bad-Messages are stored
delivererPluginFolder	Path to the folder containing the plug-ins for sending e-mails
enableSendBadMsg	Activates/deactivates the sending of Bad-Messages to a selected recipient (True/False)
badMsgMailFrom	Sender address for the Bad-Messages
badMsgMailTo	Selected recipient address for the Bad-Messages
badMsgSmtpServer	Name/IP address of the SMTP server
badMsgSubject	Subject line of a Bad-Message
maxNrOfErrors	Number of sending attempts before a Bad-Message is generated
backupPath	Path to the backups of Bad-Message files