Heh, sorry. That's essentially what we do when we sent bulk mail where I work... except instead of a scheduled task I have an event gateway that fires off every minute (I wrote a very simple interval gateway for this purpose, just google "simple interval gateway")
Rick On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Robert Harrison<rob...@austin-williams.com> wrote: > > That's exactly what the routine I sent out a few minutes ago does. > > Robert > > > _____ > > From: Rick Root [mailto:rick.r...@webworksllc.com] > To: cf-talk [mailto:cf-t...@houseoffusion.com] > Sent: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:41:35 -0400 > Subject: Re: Throttling CFMail > > > One thing you could do.... instead of calling <cfmail> insert the > details into a DB table (to,from, cc, subject, type, content, etc)... > then have a scheduled task that runs every minute send out 100 emails > from the table and flag them as sent. Then, it takes a minimum of 20 > minutes to send out 2000 messages. And of course you can adjust that > speed by changing the number of emails it does per interval. > > -- > Rick Root > CFFM - Open Source Coldfusion File Manager > http://www.opensourcecf.com/cffm > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:325652 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4