The iis smtp service is ok for absolute no frills, don't care at all what happens to the emails. But the logging is pretty rubbish, so tracking down causes of failures is often very hard or impossible. It doesn't compare to smartermail or hmail which are both free to use for smtp.
Regards Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine On Apr 11, 2013 9:08 PM, "Justin Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The current concept is for me to get another server specifically > > for their email delivery, and to move their app to my CF machine... > > First, the volumes of e-mail you're talking about may sound like a > lot, but they're really not. We have CF apps that do close to half a > million messages a day during peak times. (Marketing around holidays, > primarily) > > We use the IIS SMTP service for outgoing delivery. If their e-mails > are pretty spread out, 300k/mo would work out to about 830/hour if > spread out over 12 hours a day. The IIS SMTP service won't even > notice load like that. Install the IIS SMTP service on a server that > doesn't already have mail services, ensure it has reverse DNS > configured, add its IP to any SPF records you may have for domains > you're sending for, configure it to allow relay from your localhost > and any other IPs you control, and point ColdFusion at it for e-mail > delivery. Simple and no extra hardware needed. > > All of this assumes you're running Windows, of course. If you're on a > *nix platform look at Exim as it can also handle low volume like that > without breaking a sweat. > > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:355391 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
