there is a memory leak in CDO so that if you use it a lot it has a tendency
to use memory without releasing it.
Bill Grover
Manager, Information Systems
EU Services, Inc.
649 N Horners Ln
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: 301-424-3300 x3324
Fax: 301-424-3696
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 05:53 PM 1/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>We had an application that used CDO to e-mail to a list of about 2,500
>people. The application would create an object, send and e-mail to 1
>address, drop the object then update a table that it had e-mailed that
>address. Yes it might not have been the most efficient but we only ran it
>once a month and one of the highest priorities was to insure that if the
>application crashed in the middle of sending the e-mail that when restarted
>it wouldn't send the e-mail to the same address a 2nd time.
>
>When it ran under CF 4.01 it would take about 10-15 minutes to send the
>e-mails. After migrating to MX 6.0 it would take hours to run. We ended
>up rewritting the application to directly write files to CF's mail spool
>folder.
>
>Bill Grover
>Manager, Information Systems
>EU Services, Inc.
>649 N Horners Ln
>Rockville, MD 20850
>
>Phone: 301-424-3300 x3324
>Fax: 301-424-3696
>E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>At 04:39 PM 1/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > > I have this newsletter application wich I have used for over a
> > > year now to send a monthly newsletter to about 900 people. It has
> > > worked fine using <cfmail> while splitting the list into 4 small
> > > lists of about 250 subscribers. This is under a shared hosting
> > > environment with Crystaltech.com. I never had any issues until a
> > > week ago.
> > >
> > > Now, I email is not delivered and when I called tech support they
> > > say I must use CDO insted of Coldfusion's native tag.
> > >
> > > Is this advice sound? Or is it time to look for a new host?
> > >
> > > 900 emails split into 4 small lists doesn't seem excessive. And,
> > > most importantly, how come it worked fine before?
> > >
> > > The tech support guy flatly said he didn't know the answer to this
> > > question, but insisted I use CDO....
> >
> >If you're using CFMX, I'd strongly recommend using CFMAIL instead of
> >alternative solutions - especially if they're COM-based like CDO.
> >
> >If you're using an older version of CF, there have been quite a few issues
> >with CFMAIL, but I don't know that they'd warrant rewriting your code to use
> >CDO.
> >
> >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> ><http://www.figleaf.com/>http://www.figleaf.com/
> >phone: 202-797-5496
> >fax: 202-797-5444
> >
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