Mailcasters
Four types of Mailcasters can be configured to work with Online Marketing:
Small Job Only Mailcaster.
Small Job Priority Mailcaster.
Large Job Priority Mailcaster.
Large Job Only Mailcaster.
The three types are defined by the kinds of mail jobs they are set up to handle. Each one is described in more detail in the following sections.
The Small Job Only Mailcaster, as its name implies, handles only small mail jobs. The actual size of a small mail job is configurable, and is controlled by the configuration parameter smallAudienceThreshold. Only those jobs containing fewer emails than this parameter specifies can be handled by a Small Job Only Mailcaster.
Typically, Small Job Only Mailcasters are used to handle test dialogs and dialogs with very small audiences.
To define a Mailcaster as Small Job Only, set the following configuration parameters:
smallJobOnly = true
maxJobSize = <a value equal to or smaller than smallAudienceThreshold>
Like the Small Job Only Mailcasters, Small Job Priority Mailcasters handle small jobs; however, Small Job Priority Mailcasters will also handle large jobs if no small jobs are available for processing.
To define a Mailcaster as Small Job Priority, set the following configuration parameters:
smallJobOnly = false
maxJobSize = <a value smaller than smallAudienceThreshold>
If any small jobs exist in the queue at the time this Mailcaster becomes available, it will take these jobs first. If only large jobs exist, it will process large jobs only until another small job becomes available.
Large Job Priority Mailcasters are configured to handle large mail jobs first, and to process small jobs only if no large jobs are available.
To define a Mailcaster as Large Job Priority, set the following configuration parameters:
smallJobOnly = false
maxJobSize = <a value larger than smallAudienceThreshold>
If any large jobs exist in the queue at the time this Mailcaster becomes available, it will take these jobs first. If only small jobs exist, it will process small jobs only until another large job becomes available.
The Large Job Only Mailcaster handles only large mail jobs. The actual size of a large mail job is configurable, and is controlled by the configuration parameter smallAudienceThreshold. Only those jobs containing more emails than this parameter specifies can be handled by a Large Job Only Mailcaster.