I actually do use loops, but was curiuos more on the why it is not a good idea to put more than one email address in the 2 field, and to be honest I didnt even give spam issues as a reason for it:-)
On 8/3/06, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why would you need to do it that way? Just use a loop. > > > > > "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, > Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, > Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is > confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of > the > intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please > note > that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the > information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error please return it to the sender or > call > our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within > this > communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Scott > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Thu Aug 03 02:26:27 2006 > Subject: Re: MassMailings CFMAIL > > Matt, > > I am a little curious why you would suggest to not put it all into the To: > field? I have written a basic mail server once before, and believe me you > have confused me here. The logic behind mutliple multiple email address in > a > to: field or bcc: etc are duplicated and sent out by any decent mail > server > and as CF is not a mail server then I am very curious. Maybe I am missing > something? > > > > On 8/3/06, Matt Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you're on a shared server you could have resource issues. In no > > event should you ever pile in multiple mail addressees into the To > > field. > > > > Send everything as a discrete message and throttle down the mail. I > > would say 20k is the outside of the envelope for conveniently doing > > this but I have clients who do it regularly. > > > > Do a decent throttle speed and no one -- including spam frequency > > filters who can get the wrong idea from your 20k email blast -- will > > notice you. 20 every 10 seconds would trickle the list out in less > > than 3 hours. I would do 10 every 10 and just run it overnight. > > > > http://mysecretbase.com/Slowing_Down_CFMail_2004.cfm > > > > Its about time I did a 2006 version that also incorporates try/catch > > to collect individual bad email addresses (i.e. badly formatted) and > > let the routine continue if it finds any. I've got it running like > > that in my CMS' mass mailer component. > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Janitor, MSB Web Systems > > mysecretbase.com > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248696 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
