The emails are completely opt-in, and there are links in the footer of each email to both immediately remove from the email list and also change their email preferences. I might just create a generic sent emails table with an accompanying scheduled task that runs every 5 minutes, grabs the top (x) unsent emails, sends them, and sets a "sent" timestamp.
Thanks Pete On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:42 PM, David Long <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good luck on the throttling. > > I never could get it to work but was able to come to an understanding with > my Web Host's Sysadmin. Don't know what he did but I now send out 3,000+ > with a single click using: > <CFLOOP list="#Form.SelectedRecipients#" index="Recipient"> > <CFMAIL > from="#Form.Sender#" > to="#Recipient#" > subject="#Form.Subject#" > type="HTML" > > > ***content*** > </CFMAIL> > </CFLOOP> > > and they loop thru the spooler smooth as silk. > > One other suggestion, based on sad experience, assuming yours is an > "opt-in" > list, be sure you give subscribers a readily available "unsubscribe" link. > Many AOL users are too lazy to ask to be removed and will just click the > "This is spam" button which puts your ISP's server on a blacklist. > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:58 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Throttling CFMail > > > > I got dinged by my ISP for sending 2,000 email newsletters at once. Any > ideas on how to "throttle" these emails so that they are sent in small > batches, i.e. 100 per minute? Is there a simple way to accomplish this, or > do I just need to write my own code that loops through and sends emails > incrementally? > Thanks. > > Pete > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325645 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
