>> They send out a little over 100,000 emails a month. As much as that may sound, it's not a lot of email. Just about any SMTP server can handle that volume. The real trick is timing. If all 100K go out at once then you will need to throttle the output not because of server load but because the receiving servers, in particular AOL, Earthlink and Hotmail will start rejecting email if you try to deliver too much too fast (as determined by them).
Having a separate sending SMTP server for broadcasts is in my opinion the best way because you can throttle the delivery on that server without effecting your normal email server and burdening the queue. Just be sure the sending email server has proper PTR (RDNS) and SPF records or a Domain Key, if you use them, and then play with the outbound sending threads to find the optimum delivery speed. Dennis Powers UXB Internet - A website Design and Hosting Company P.O. Box 6028, Wolcott, CT 06716 - T:203-879-2844 W: http://www.uxbinternet.com W: http://www.ctbusinesslist.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:355382 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
