Thanks for some good ideas all.
The issue is that the client has a dynamic form that lets them generate
e-mail lists on the fly by matching a number of profile options. The email
lists can vary from 10 - 10,000 addresses depending. So, something like
majordomo won't work too well. We looked at using SQL Server's mailer, but
it was not clear how to add custom headers like content-type: text/html or
content-type: multipart/choice.
I was hoping there would be a cfx_mail-type replacement that would work on
Linux.
What we have now is CF formats the message bodies in HTML and text format,
and passes the address list and other message data to a java class. The
java class sends the mail directly into sendmail over a standard telnet
socket.
It works, but we had to add a 'sleep' period between calls - it was
overrunning sendmail - so now it's slow. Ah well, speed or stability - that
is the question :-)
Thanks again for all the good suggestions.
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Kuryk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 4:06 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CFMail replacement for Linux
>
>
> not running linux but why can't you just execute mail with
> your email text
> and let sendmail kickit off just like a perl script would do?
>
> <cfexecute name="mail"
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Beer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:18 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: CFMail replacement for Linux
>
>
> Does anyone know of a CFMail replacement that will run on Linux?
>
> We need to allow a client to send 10,000 plus e-mails in one
> shot, possibly
> several times a day. CFMail (on their server) handles about
> 3,000 with
> little trouble, but above that, threads start hanging, the
> server restarts
> over and over, and of course, we lose all the sessions, etc.
>
> If I can't find a replacement I think I'll have to write the
> message bodies
> and addresses to temp tables and send them in batches every x
> minutes..
> anyone have a better solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
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