I run out a bunch of emails perhaps 10-20k of them every few weeks in bulk...
it requires a lot of babysitting and surely some piece die in a cue... I monitor it and keep things stable... I would highly recommend looking at Howie's mail replacement.... running mail on a second box is mandatory really.. otherwise your filesystem will inevitably fall apart and the OS will slow down when trying to access those directorie(s) if not crash... it is an OS issue... typically anything above 500 files or so completely smacks the system hard... if time is not the issue on the mailing, break the mailing into smaller batches... clean the mail directory out/resend before the next batch... it definitely isn't sane to use CF for the mass mailing, but it can be done with some tradeoffs... -paris -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Burns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 09:09 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFmail Recount At 13:22 29/10/01 Justin Scott said.... >Eek! Sorry to hear about your bad luck! I can tell you that if you're >sending out THAT many e-mails, you're better off... > >1) Getting a separate server dedicated to handling SMTP spooling, then use >CFFILE to write the messages directly to the spooler pickup directory >instead of using CFMAIL. > >2) Outsource your mailings to a company that specializes in this type of >thing, such as Postmaster General (http://www.postmastergeneral.com/). One >of our clients used them to do a weekly mailing to about a million >subcribers without a hitch. Or do what we do and use Howie's iMS-SE or the full version of iMS. http://www.coolfusion.com/ Gordon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
