The cfmail attribute is spoolenable="no" which you set for emails that should go out immediately with no spooling delay. It would help if you sent these emails to a server that is set up to handle instant email delivery. If you have one mail server that is handling bulk emails, company emails, and real-time site emails, then that email server could get backed up and the instant delivery won't work the way you want.
With this option turned off it sends the email directly to the mail server. Most mail servers have a configurable spool/queue feature of their own. A downside with turning off CF spooling is there is less protection if something goes wrong. If the mail server goes offline and you have CF spooling turned on, all the emails accumulate and you can easily respool them. Without this protection, if the mail server is offline I believe CF would throw an error without retaining a copy of the email that it failed to send. This is an assumption. -Mike Chabot On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I control sending mail to the cf spooler or not from the cfmail > tag itself? This seems like it would be the best option. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Chabot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:19 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: CFMail Alternatives > > I worked on a site that sent many hundreds of thousands of emails > every day using CF 7 Enterprise and it was fine. The thing we had to > do though was to use two different mail servers, one optimized for > immediate mail delivery, like new account setup emails, and one > optimized for bulk newsletter emails. When we only had one mail server > it would get bogged down during the mass emails and the emails that > people expected to receive immediately got delayed. The mail server > was the bottleneck. > > You can configure CF so that it doesn't spool emails by unchecking the > box in CFAdmin, if you think spooling is the problem as opposed to the > speed of the mail server. I personally like the spooling feature. You > can also override the settings in CFAdmin in a cfmail tag, so maybe > the mass mails use the spooler and others get sent directly to the > mail server. > > Maybe the hard drive speed is the spooling bottleneck and that an > alternative won't be any faster because it would be subject to the > same bottleneck. It is hard to tell. > > -Mike Chabot > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think it would be much more cost effective to buy a mail tag than to >> shell out the $ for Enterprise though. >> >> Even if you tell it to use different mail servers it is still using > the >> CF spooler. My mail server isn't the issue the cf spooler is :( >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 5:54 PM >> To: cf-talk >> Subject: Re: CFMail Alternatives >> >> Last I heard, CF Enterprise could send an insane amount of email very >> quickly. I think maybe 50k per hour? I don't think 10k would be a >> problem. >> >> Of course, what about using multiple mail servers? You can have one >> client use mail server x, another one use y, etc. >> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have clients with large newsletters and if more than 1 of them send >>> them at a time it could potentially send over 10k emails to the > cfmail >>> spooler. So naturally I have other clients that are complaining about >>> how long it takes the mail to get delivered. I know there are >>> alternatives out there to CFMAIL so does anyone out there have >>> experience with them? I need something that can send mail in bulk to >> my >>> mail server. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314051 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
