> How's the speed of CFFILE when used in big mailings? Have you > tried it with 50,000 + emails?
Yes. Works about as fast as your HD spins. > I tried out a custom tag that used CFFILE to send mails, and it was > painfully slow It can be, there are a couple of tricks involved, including not writing them directly to the SMTP spool, and not putting too many in one folder. This makes two messages on the list and one in my personal email about this. I will definitely try to write something up in the next week or so about how to use this technique. -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: tom muck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:26 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: FAIL Spooling > > > How's the speed of CFFILE when used in big mailings? Have you > tried it with > 50,000 + emails? > > I tried out a custom tag that used CFFILE to send mails, and it was > painfully slow. Using CFMAIL I can execute huge numbers of > queries and send > mails to my mail server quickly. The only bottleneck is the spool folder. > > tom > > > > You can also use CFFILE to write directly to the Microsoft's SMTP server > > pickup directory. We do this and it works great. Set up the > SMTP server > > purely as a relay off to a "real" mailserver, and messages fly off the > > machine. Plus you are allowing the right tool to do the right job. CF > > isn't a mass mailing server, it's an application server. A server > designed > > specifically for handling email is virtually always going to > beat one that > > just "also features" email capability. > > > > -Cameron > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm 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
