Transcript Marketing Operations: Launch Process Review

Future Delivery TOI
Monica Price Cohen
July, 2008
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Overview
 Message Delivery Header
 Movement of the message on the file system
 New database table
 Mta timer task
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Message Delivery Header
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A Message comes in with message header "xCiscoUnity-FutureDelivery: <Future Delivery Time
in GMT>".
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Ex: X-CiscoUnity-FutureDelivery: Sat, 26 Jul 2008
20:00:00 +0000
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Message in the file system
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Mta moves the message file to:
/var/opt/cisco/connection/spool/UmssMtaFutureD
elivery/UnityMbxDb(X).
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UnityMbxDb(X) is the mailbox store number where
the sender’s mailbox lives.
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New database table
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Mta creates an item in
UnityMbxDb(X).vw_FutureDelivery.
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This row contains the delivery date (in GMT) and
the file name of the message.
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UnityMbxDb(X).vw_FutureDelivery
 Ex:
echo "select * from vw_futuredelivery" | cucdb dbaccess
unitymbxdb1
 Returns:
filename 298255b7-5f27-43fe-a7ea-cdba441f3d7f.eml.mta
deliverydate 2008-07-26 20:00:00.000
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Mta Timer Task
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Mta timer task monitors vw_FutureDelivery.deliverydate
once a minute for messages that have matured.
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When a message has matured, the mta moves the file from:
/var/opt/cisco/connection/spool/UmssMtaFutureDelivery
to:
/var/opt/cisco/connection/spool/UmssMtaQueue
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At that point the message is processed like any other
message.
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