We had the same problem at www.ontvstore.com with AOL to get around it I
sort the list by the the email address - that seems to stop the "bunching"
of aol address's and it seems to work fine.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "DSJ / PC1, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: RE: Throttling CFMAIL
> Ok Cameron. Here's the deal.
>
> I run the web site for ColoradoRunner.com. On that web site, you will
> notice that we collect e-mail addresses from those that opt to give it to
> us, in the form of an e-mail collection box on the home page, as well as
the
> contest for the free shoe give away each and every week.
>
> Anyways, we currently have about 7,000 opt-in e-mail addresses in our
> database, which we send out bi-weekly (or so) e-mails to, through a custom
> CF app I've written. Well, each time we send out a mailing, ALL 1,500
> aol.com e-mails get returned to us. I believe it's because the aol.com
mail
> servers think that we are spamming them (which we are not). So, my
thinking
> is that if we stagger the outgoing mail, the aol.com mail servers may let
> the mail through. Everyone else using other ISP's gets the mailing fine.
>
> Make sense? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dennis
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:56 AM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: Throttling CFMAIL
> >
> >
> > > cf_sleep in the tag gallery
> >
> > Using CF_Sleep to pause 30 seconds 1000 times is probably not a very
good
> > idea. You'd be tying up a CF thread for 500 minutes, and CF
> > would probably
> > kill the thread way before the timeout was reached.
> >
> > I'm not exactly sure why you would want spend 8 hours and 20
> > minutes sending
> > out 1000 messages.
> >
> > Maybe you could enlighten us as to the reason you think you need
> > to do this?
> > There might be a better solution than slowing CFMAIL down.
> >
> > As your question stands, I would say you best bet would probably be to
set
> > up a scheduled event that runs every 30 seconds, sending out one
> > email each
> > time. Again, why one would do this escapes me.
> >
> > -Cameron
> >
> > --------------------
> > Cameron Childress
> > elliptIQ Inc.
> > p.770.460.1035.232
> > f.770.460.0963
> > --
> > http://www.neighborware.com
> > America's Leading Community Network Software
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gary Kraeger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:49 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: Re: Throttling CFMAIL
> > >
> > >
> > > cf_sleep in the tag gallery
> > >
> > > Gary
> > > cfdev.com
> > > http://www.cfdev.com
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "DSJ / PC1, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:23 PM
> > > Subject: Throttling CFMAIL
> > >
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know how I would be able to throttle a batch of cfmail
> > > > processes?
> > > >
> > > > For instance, let's say I've got a database of 1000 e-mail addresses
> > > (opt-in
> > > > of course), and I want to wait 30 seconds between each one that
> > > get's sent
> > > > out. Any way I can do this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Dennis St. John
> > > > PC1, Inc.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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