system. I used to use ActivMail for sending out broadcasts when we were on
CF5, but found with CFMX that the cfmail tag was VASTLY improved (both
feature-wise and performance-wise) and have moved back to that.
That said, concerning multiple clients trying to send... I had to write a
whole queueing system so as not to potentially overwhelm my servers if
multiple clients wanted to send at the same time. I basically break each
send up into 5k blocks (should the send be more than 5k), and have a
scheduled task running a script that basically picks up a single 5k block,
processes it, and then terminates.
Hit me up off-list if you'd like to chat more on it, I'd be happy to try
and nudge you in the right direction.
--Scott
At 07:45 AM 4/21/2004, you wrote:
>I know this discussion came up before about how many emails can be sent
>*reliably* using <cfmail> in CFMX 6.1. I'm curious what the numbers are
>on that and then also what is out there that people would recommend for
>doing mail-outs that are too big for CF. I'm thinking that I want to
>use CF to give some Admin controls to users for formatting an email and
>then sending to their list. Some of the lists for clients are upwards
>of 2,000+ members. I'm thinking CF could probably handle one client at a
>time doing this, but in the odd situation where two people are on at
>once trying it, I'm afraid CF will choke. Is there some kind of
>software (preferrably cheap or free) that can actually handle the
>"mailing" part in the background without slowing down CF? Let me know.
>
>
>John
>
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