Why are you going to use MS SMTP again? We send emails to large amounts of users as well, and have had no problems since we switched over to iMS lite (free) with a dedicated mail server. We are using CF 6.1 standard and have not seen noticeable delays.
If you need better performance, you can upgrade to one of their higher end versions (they go by # of threads, the free one is 5 threads, and I believe the pay versions start at 25 threads and go up from there). iMS can also send out email by itself. We are using it with a dedicated mail server box because we already had one and we wish to use that box for what it's meant for instead of causing more resource drains on the CF server, but it would probably work well without a dedicated server as well. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 4:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Optimizing Microsoft SMTP Protoculture wrote: > > We currently have a email list of about 60,000 users and unfortunatley at this point have to fall back on using MS SMTP. Can anyone recommend best practices to optimze it and or some useful websites that provide this information. There is nothing specific about MS SMTP, the optimizations Macromedia recommends for optimizing CF email performance apply equally to MS SMTP. (Except for the number of threads.) Check the Macromedia site for the whitepaper. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228561 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
