Does anyone use CFMAIL then?! I thought that CFMX 6.1 had addressed these issues and CFMAIL was now *supposed* to be so much better.
(or is that only with Enterprise?) Has anyone had any success with the Standard version? Matt > >Many thanks for your reply. The mail server in question is running > >CommuniGatePro on a multi-processor machine with plenty of RAM. It should > >be able to handle this. > > so the problem is probably not over there > > >I did query it with their support people and they said that the SMTP error was > >due to Coldfusion dropping the connection to the server. > > .... so the problem is with CF's apparently still screwed up SMTP > client. See my previous recommendation. > > >What setting controls this? I can see that it looks like I need to increase > >the Spool Interval - if I set this to say 180 seconds would it help the > >problem? > > no. I'm guessing "spool interval" is "deferred msg retry interval". totally > unrelated to broken SMTP connections by CF. > > >I am happy to look at alternative programs > > Since you're handling linux, you can handle postfix as MTA, for which there > is probably a postfix RPM or whatever they call them for your flavor of > Linux, (rather than spend weeks puzzling through sendmail's crypic config > and m4 macros). postfix has one config file of full-word style > > param = value > > > > but CF should be capable of sending > >3,000 emails without losing them en-route > > I said that in 1997. why do you think so many of the very first CF add-ons > were replacement SMTP clients for CFMAIL? > > >- and we have a more than capable mail server. > > assume the mail server isn't the problem. > > Len ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:14:3754 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:14 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.14 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
