FYI - Everything in my message pertained to CF5 ONLY! -Cameron
----------------- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc. --- cell: 678-637-5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:34 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Mass emailing and drive space > > > CF5? Yes you would need aprox 100000k of drive space. > 20,000 messages is a > whole lot to send using CF though. There ARE other options > available to > you. CF is not a mail Server. I would definitely not > recommend sending > 1mil emails without a very good strategy for pacing the > delivery. Using one > CF5 server, assuming you paced the spooling correctly and tweaked the > spooler interval in the admin, it would take approximately 42 > hours to relay > all those messages off the server to the mailserver. > > Here are some stats for CF5 that may be of use to you... The > spool has a > hard upper limit of 65536 of # of message which CF can write > to it. The > limit is based on CF's usage of the hex charset to generate 4 > character > identifiers for each message (16^4=65536). It also can only > send a max of > 400 messages per minute, though I have never seen it hit that, and by > default sends only 100 per minute. This means that once the > spool gets > "full", even at it's fastest rate, it would take just over > 163 minutes (2 > hours, 43 minutes) to empty the spool (65536/400=163.84 > minutes). At it's > default rate, it would take 655.36 minutes (10 hours, 55 > minutes) to empty > the spool (65536/100=655.36). > > I have had success loading IIS's SMTP service onto the CF > server and writing > messages directly to it's outbound spool. You set it up > purely as a relay > to your "real" mailserver and let it do the heavy lifting. > The files relay > at an incredibly fast rate that way, but you can still run > into hard drive > space limitations. > > Another alternative is just to not use CF for this task. CF > wasn't created > or intended to be used for this purpose (sending a million > emails), and > isn't designed for it. There are plenty of other more > suitable round pegs > out there for you to choose from. > > -Cameron > > ----------------- > Cameron Childress > Sumo Consulting Inc. > --- > cell: 678-637-5072 > aim: cameroncf > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeff Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:21 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Mass emailing and drive space > > > > > > I was curious about mass emailing and drive space. If I do a > > mailing of > > 20,000 emails and the email is 5k do I need 100000k of drive > > space so CF has > > enough room to create every piece of email in the > > cfusion/mail/spool dir? > > > > If so, what if I had to send out 1million emails with the > > email being 5k > > would I need 5000000k of space on the drive? > > > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.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
