How to Pause a Direct Mailer Job

You can pause a Direct Mailer job at any time. If you pause a Direct Mailer job, Direct Mailer stops processing the list of recipients, but you can restart it later. The job status will remain Paused (4) until the job is restarted. Direct Mailer records the recipient it will process next, so that if the job is paused, it will restart where it left off. If the hard disk fails, or there is a power failure, it will start approximately where it left off after it is restarted. That is, it will start within n of where it left off, where n is the number of threads configured in the Direct Mailer. For information about how to restart a Direct Mailer job, see How to Restart a Direct Mailer Job.

To pause a Direct Mailer job

1. At the command line, type the following command to display a list of all Direct Mailer jobs:

   DmlRun /list
   

2. Note the jobID number of the Direct Mailer job you want to pause, and then type:

   DmlRun /pause:<jobID number> 
   

   The Direct Mailer job is paused.

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Other Resources

Managing Direct Mailer