few reasons
1: Bandwidth on your mailserver
Depending on the number of recipients your webserver is probably far better
optimized for serving images, than your mail server is of sending large
numbers of large emails - and the load would be far more distributed as
people read their mail, rather than all in one batch when they get sent.
(also with any bounced messages - the original email is often attached - and
could put additional unneccessary strain on your mailserver)
2: Initial Time to display email
Although in absolute terms you're right - it probably take longer to go
fetch the images from the live site, the email would appear readable to the
recipient as soon as all the mail is recieved - and the images could
download in the background as the mail is being read.
3: User Impatience
Depending on the file size, and the users bandwidth, they may not be
prepared to wait for ages for some unknown massive email to download -
whereas when they have it in their inbox they know what it is...
4: Cheapo ISP's restricted mailbox sizes...
Some ISP's have really low size limits on their mailbox size - and will
bounce messages that won't fit - My old uni only gave 300kb - though I think
most commercial ISP's are better...
HTH
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 31 August 2001 17:00
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: The biggest cfmail message?
At 4:22 PM +0100 8/31/01, Daniel Lancelot wrote:
>Is this content already displayed online?
>
>If so, rather than sending an email with all the images etc attached, you
>could link to all the image's online locations (absolute href's) and thus
>reduce your bandwidth requirements substantially (depending on the nature
of
>the content...)
>
>HTH
>
>Dan
>
Yes, the content is online! The email will have the hrefs as you mention.
But, I don't see how this helps the receiver, the email client has to
go fetch the images from the live site, as opposed to receiving them
as attachments... seems that this would take a little longer.
Am I missing something here?
Dick
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