Hi Jason,
>I doubt someone who wants to send mail to a measly 1600 people is going to
>want to spend $4,900.00 dollars on a mail program.
Where did $4,900 come from? The only server mentioned is the iMS POST SE,
which is $75 a year license, not quite the same thing :-)
>I have done quite a bit
>of work with CFMAIL and integrating it into our Newsletter database and it
>has performed quite well.
You have been lucky.
>Just out of curiosity and not in anyway to start a
>flame war ... I would like to hear the problems you have had when using
>custom written apps and CFMAIL?
Its quite simple, CFMAIL fails to easily, so you have to write a scheduled
thing that looks in the "bad" folder, gets it all out, works out why it
failed and put it back in the spool folder and try again. Why do that when
you can have a real mail posting engine that handles mail properly, writes
proper logs and has a nice template facility for handling failed messages,
reporting stats, etc., for almost nothing?
>I especially like the simplicity of being
>able to send a personalized e-mail to every person on your list using
>CFMAIL - right down to inserting the custom information they have requested.
the iMS POST server uses a custom tag, CFX_iMSMail, that you can treat in a
very similar way as the CFMAIL tag, only it has better facilities. Custom
mail with it is a doddle.
--
Yours,
Kym
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