3000 emails should be fine with CFMAIL. For larger mailings or discussion lists I would look into something more robust.
HTH, -- Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager On-Line Data Solutions, Inc. - www.CoolFusion.com - 631-737-4668 x101 *** Please vote for iMS here: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/readerschoice2002/nominationform.cfm *** inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - The Award-winning, Intelligent Mail Server >>> Find out how iMS Stacks up to the competition: >http://www.coolfusion.com/imssecomparison.cfm ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:07 AM Subject: performance of cfmail > I run the web site for a small college, and am fairly new to ColdFusion. We > distribute a weekly newsletter - an e-mail announcement with headlines and > teasers. It points to a cfm page. We have been using our mail server's > built-in "all" list to distribute it, but there are problems with that. I > have a current database of valid campus e-mail addresses. What I'd like to > do is schedule this e-mail to go out around 4 a.m. (the only time that our > network seems to slow down at all) on Friday mornings. I am planning to > just put the cfmail inside a cfoutput that goes though a query of the > addresses. Is using cfmail (ColdFusionMX on a decent Linux machine) to > knock out about 3,000 emails a good idea? Are there any performance issues > I should consider? Thanks. > > Dave Robinson > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
