I've repeatedly heard the mantra "don't use CFMAIL for large message volumes" from peers and at conferences. It really seems to be the most flimsy part of the whole CF App Server, and one that is frequently bypassed.
I've seen implementations that use everything from writing the messages directly to the mail spool with CFFILE to transmission via COM object calls (e.g. EasyMail and Windows Messaging). The former is messy and is MTA-specific, reducing portability (e.g. if your ISP converts from Sendmail to QMail or Postfix you might have to recode your app). The latter unfortunately won't work for CF on Linux due to lack of COM object support. I have, however, recently stumbled across Sun's JavaMail API: http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/ This appears to be a candidate for replacing CFMAIL via CFOBJECT calls to Java classes. I haven't tried to use this yet, so my impressions of functionality may be wrong, or a real implementation may be too complicated to be worth it. On the up side, it would allow you to avoid introducing Perl to your project. ;) Brian -----Original Message----- From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:48 AM Hi, I'm a regular on CF-TALK, but came over here because I'm having a hell of a time with my CF5/Linux box. I've got that "restart every 30 seconds thing" going on - and it's directly related to mail in the spool. ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=14 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14
