I'm not worried about how fast mail can get delivered, or DNS resolution, or
any of the other factors that are on the mail server itself. The mail
server we are using can handle anything CF can throw at it.
I'm more interested in how fast CF can spool the messages and feed them off
to the mail server. All of the limitations folks have posted so far have
been limitations on the mail server.
I think I'll set up a test here and see what I can find out. I'll post the
results when I get done. Now my only problem is setting up a temporary
mailbox to hold 50,000 messages. <grin>
Chris Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.fuseware.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan G. Switzer, II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chris Evans
Subject: RE: Speed of CFMAIL
Chris,
It really varies. At a previous job, we used to use CF to send all our mail
blasts. When we first started, we were using a very sluggish NT-based DNS
server-at best we'd get out 6-10K of messages an hour. When we switched over
to a unix-based DNS system (which was even based 2000 miles away) we were
able to bump it up to about 20-30K messages an hour. The mail server also
has something to do with it as well. We actually set up an independent mail
server just for mass mailings (we were using Imail for NT at the time-not
sure how that compares to LSMTP.)
I know your looking for something concrete, but it really all depends on the
speed of the mail and DNS servers you're running and how many connections
they can handle. I'm sure you're hardware's just fine ('cause I know were
you work :),) so it really depends on the mail and DNS servers.
-Dan
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| name | Dan G. Switzer, II |
|company | PengoWorks.com |
| www | http://www.pengoworks.com |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Speed of CFMAIL
Len,
I'll be connecting CFMAIL to L-Soft's LSMTP. I've tested LSMTP to send
over 80,000 messages an hour, but not with mail coming from CF. I haven't
had an opportunity to test how fast CFMAIL can feed LSMTP the messages.
Setting up a couple of mail boxes to receive 100,000 messages is a bit of
work, so I don't want to duplicate effort if I don't have to.
A rough approximation to the nearest 10k/hour is close enough. Anybody?
Chris Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.fuseware.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 9:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Speed of CFMAIL
>Has anybody done any speed tests to determine how many emails CFMAIL can
>send in an hour?
If CFMAIL's outgoing volume is insufficient, I would recommend having
CFMail's SMTP client dump all outgoing mail on a local ip (no DNS lookups
by CFMAIL) where a mail gateway running an efficient and reliable MTA like
postfix would do the dirty work of actually delivering the mail.
Asking a production CF server, I assume it's doing lots of other CF
applications, to do volume mail delivery seems to be counterproductive and
is certainly unnecessary.
Len
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