> Loop over 500 records with a X minute interval? Or is there a better way I have overseen?
Hello Taco, We don't use CFMAIL for our mailouts (we regularly mail out over 4000 email each burst) and have devised our own background process to do this. We also store all the individualised mails (minus attachments - which we store and record the path) in our database. This gives us a complete track of the emails as well as the ability to resend dead email (from a dead email queue [table]). We then let a background process (which in our case is a PERL script) deliver the emails by reading records from the database and then calling SENDMAIL directly. You could modify this concept and use CFMAIL in a background task instead. I believe that CFMAIL in CFMX 6.1 is able to handle bulk emails better than previous versions - but we have looked at that technology and decided to stay with the solution we have. This is because our solution is much more scalable (we can run multiple tasks across multiple file servers and multiple mail servers). You could also do this with CFMAIL - by having multiple Cold Fusion boxes and setting them to different mail servers - but the PERL script we developed can automatically failover in case of a mail server outage - Cold Fusion would not be able to do that. And, you would have to be running Cold Fusion on each box. We can run the PERL script on any server (or PC for that matter) that has access to the necessary shares and ports in our internal network. Once we have the information in the database, we can throttle our mail script as well as control priority. We recently did a mailing to all 20,000 members of our web client base, set it to a low priority, throttled the mails to 20 per minute, and had the delivery completed within about 30 hours (without triggering any SPAM black lists and without any perceived bottlenecks for "normal" web emails). 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 **************************************************************************** If this communication is not intended for you and you are not an authorised recipient of this email you are prohibited by law from dealing with or relying on the email or any file attachments. This prohibition includes reading, printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, storing or in any other way dealing or acting in reliance on the information. If you have received this email in error, we request you contact ABN AMRO Morgans Limited immediately by returning the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and destroy the original. We will refund any reasonable costs associated with notifying ABN AMRO Morgans. This email is confidential and may contain privileged client information. ABN AMRO Morgans has taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all its communications, including electronic communications, but accepts no liability for materials transmitted. Materials may also be transmitted without the knowledge of ABN AMRO Morgans. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited its directors and employees do not accept liability for the results of any actions taken or not on the basis of the information in this report. ABN AMRO Morgans Limited and its associates hold or may hold securities in the companies/trusts mentioned herein. Any recommendation is made on the basis of our research of the investment and may not suit the specific requirements of clients. Assessments of suitability to an individual's portfolio can only be made after an examination of the particular client's investments, financial circumstances and requirements. **************************************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
