One of my most successful projects here is a broadcast email tool that lets managers send messages to segments of the corporation, or to everyone. It's currently set up to send each message separately to our email server, which prevents someone from doing a Reply to All (management wanted this restriction). They can also send an attachment, which is where we got into trouble yesterday. A manager sent mail to the entire corporation with a 897kb attachment. About 290 of our employees are now in the database CF uses to find email addresses. So it had to send an 897kb attachment to our email server 290 times. The CF server slowed to a crawl. Then I started getting error messages and had to re-boot.
When I discussed possible solutions with my boss, he pointed out that the machine hosting the email server (IMail) is a more powerful device. Therefore we should find some way to shift the load. He suggested we create an email list in IMail to include all employee addresses, and send broadcast messages from the CF server to that list. Unfortunately ColdFusion is not installed on the email server, so I would have to manually maintain the employee email list there. There must be an alternative. Any tips? Preferably some way to tweak CF to handle this kind of load? We're running CF5 on NT4. Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator VantageMed Operations (Kansas City) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ______________________________________________________________________ The KCFusion.org list and website is hosted by Humankind Systems, Inc. List Archives........ http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-list@kcfusion.org Questions, Comments or Glowing Praise.. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Subscribe.................... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe................ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
