I remember asking about doing it as one big BCC list but I remember being told by our sys admins that there was a limit to the amount of BCC's you could do in one email . Cant remember if it's a sendmail / qmail issue or if that's a general rule .. Ill try and dig out the info !
Stephen -----Original Message----- From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2003 12:34 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Sqillions of Emails we use CFMAIL to send out council newsletters to about 3000 or 4000 people (on CF5) and generally goes without a hitch, although we recently sent out a 460KB attachment and because the CFMAIL loops through the emails one at a time sending individually it did cause a few probs on the exchange server i think we actually are doing something like this: <!--- Loops around the list of email addresses sending email to each. ---> <cfloop index="EmailAddresses" list="#session.EmailList#"> <cfmail to="#EmailAddresses#" from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" subject="#FORM.Subject#"> #FORM.message# </cfmail> </cfloop> Anyone know if it better to generate a semi-colon separated list of emails into a variable and use that in the BCC field so that the mail just gets sent once rather than looping round every address? perhaps that could help you Kevin? _______________________________________________________ * Regards, Richard Lovelock Westminster City Council - Web Support Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Southbank 95 Wandsworth Road London SW8 2HG ( 0870 906 7482 _______________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2003 12:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Sqillions of Emails an alternative might be to create a temp folder, create the .cfmail's manually and use cffile / cfdirectory to transfer batches of them into the spool, from a schedule. or if you don't want to create the mail file's, have a scheduled page that checks the spool folder, if there's > 1000 mails there, drag them to the temp folder, then continue as above. Duncan Cumming IT Manager http://www.alienationdesign.co.uk mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0141 575 9700 Fax: 0141 575 9600 Creative solutions in a technical world ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get your domain names online from: http://www.alienationdomains.co.uk Reseller options available! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stems.com> cc: Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Sqillions of Emails 29/10/2003 12:15 Please respond to dev I have done this with CFMAIL for a recruitment site with over 20,000 emails, and yes, in pre-MX days it did occasionally cause problems ( I believe MX is more robust but have retained the same functionality ). So I did exactly what you mentioned, write the email text to a database then have a scheduled emailer looking into this table and sending, say, 50 emails every 5 seconds? You can then use this to log all emails sent without parsing out the mail log, which is nice. -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Pope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 October 2003 12:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ cf-dev ] Sqillions of Emails Lo all, If I have a DB with, say, 5,000 addresses and I want to send an email to each of them .. would it be advisable to do this through good old CFMAIL. I've never had to ever send this many emails in one go so I'm curious as to how best to send them without breaking the mail server and I'm sure this number may double in the future. I would have thought breaking them up into batches of 100 or so might do the trick with maybe a delay between the sends but Im sure you guys must have done something similar so its best practices territory again :?) 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