That's what I went to. I found just blasting out the mail results in a few getting thru, then the sender is blocked for an indeterminate (but fairly short) period of time.
I have a client that's a medical association. They have a large member mailing list with a TON of AOL addresses. I built a mailer that loops over a query and sends an individual email to each recipient AND throttles down the speed of the operation, so as not to flood my mail queue with recipients, or trigger whatever floodgate-alert AOL has in place. Uses cfmail, its query parameter and startrow/maxrows parms. The safe speed I found is disgustingly slow. 10 messages every 17 seconds, and it was important to tie in my mail spool interval (cf admin) to the job. I have a 15 second interval there, so the throttling never doubles up two loads of mail in the queue. Also related is how fast your mail server can send the messages once they arrive in that queue. I also found this to be an issue with msn/hotmail. Throttling the mail solves the problem. You can probably go faster than 10 every 17 secs. Like I said... Disgustingly slow. I just was charged with a guaranteed safe speed and that's what I eventually settled on. Would love to hear any specifics from anyone else with experience on this. --Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Burns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: AOL? At 17:49 18/12/2002 Kris Pilles said.... >Is anyone having any difficulty sending mail to AOL??? I have been >unable to send mail to aol for the past 2 days.... My IPS are not >blacklisted... I cannot figure this out... What do you have your Max Recpt set for? I think from others AOL will refuse if you try and deliver more than 10 in a single connection. Try delivering a single email and see if that gets through. Gordon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
