Thanks Gary,

but that would involve a redevelopment of the mailing procedures, which would be too 
much hassle for us at the moment...we're just looking for quick ad-hoc fixes for the 
moment ;-)

Jesse de Leon



-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Menzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2003 11:29 AM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] RE: solution for cfmail problem with mass emails?


> CF 6.1 has a improved mail engine that should fix this.

While this is true, I have always dealt with this problem by not using 
CFMAIL directly.  I generally log emails to a database and then send them 
from there using a background task.  The current one in use at our 
organisation is written in PERL and doesnt use CFMAIL at all.  The current 
plan is convert the backend schedule stuff over to CFSCHEDULE and CFMAIL 
again now that the mail engine is better in 6.1.

If you use the above process you never have to change your mail interface 
on your web pages - but you can change the backend to use anything you 
like (for example if you are using SQL*Server you could write a mail agent 
to use SENDMAIL from SQL).

The other thing this approach gives is complete control over all mails. 
You can move them around, dead mails can go into a dead mail table and 
they are easy to find, review and reschedule.  You can assign priorities 
to mails (and write your scheduler to do higher priorities first).  And, 
in our current case, we have multiple mail deliverers connecting to 
multiple mail servers (so the throughput we can get is significant).


Gary Menzel
Web Development Manager
IT Operations Brisbane -+- ABN AMRO Morgans Limited
Level 29, 123 Eagle Street BRISBANE QLD 4000
PH: 07 333 44 828  FX:  07 3834 0828


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