yes the 'Dear John' thing is an important consideration for these emails
also which is why they are not being done as a BCC!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Faulkner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 October 2003 12:50
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Sqillions of Emails
I did think about that, and there are obvious benefits, however we were back
then using a mail relay and they often have anti-spam bcc restrictions on
them. I guess it also means you'd more likely be picked up by spam-filters
on mail clients?
Also, you lose the personalised "Dear john" aspect.
-----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?
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* Regards,
Richard Lovelock
Westminster City Council - Web Support
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
Southbank
95 Wandsworth Road
London
SW8 2HG
( 0870 906 7482
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Sent: 29 October 2003 12:26
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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.
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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 :?)
Thanks in advance for any help :?)
Regards
Stephen Pope
Web Developer
Eduserv Internet
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