FYI and also if someone might be able to give me some info. We are using CF 4.5 and we send out 3 newsletters a week. As a realestate agent we send lists of properties to buyers who specify properties in price, beds, baths, area etc.
The approach we take to this is to run 2 scheduled tasks. 1) makes up the list of properties we will send to the client, basically the mailing list. We do this now because it is the most intensive bit for CF and SQL. 2) actually pulls the property and its info, compiles the email then sends it all out. We are looking at about 20k emails twice a week. The problem we have is that we get a bottle neck. Take last week, CF generated about 8000 mails into the spool file and it took nearly 24 hours to clear them. We think this is unusually slow, and are looking at ways of getting the speed up, but I cant put my finger on the reason for the lack speed. CF 4.5 has a spool session every 15 seconds, the fastest it can go. But how many mails should it be trying to send in that spool session? Last Fridays analysis of our mail server shows it was sending 12 mails a minute. The mailserver in the meantime sent out another 1000 emails in the same time. Is there anything we can do / alternative that wil get these mails out of CF faster? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183677 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
