Your average Linux/BSD/Unix sys admin can probably pump out those e-mails in time using a well-configured sendmail daemon (or equivalent).
Possible bottlenecks to look out for: 1. ISP getting mad at you. 2. DNS lookups taking too long. 3. Destination mail exchangers being slow/overloaded. 4. Retry queues getting large, and falling into 1 hour, 5 hour, 5 day retry cycles (for example). 5. Bounced messages. 6. Not enough bandwidth or too many concurrent outbound connections. It is a good idea to configure the sendmail to NOT use an upstream smart host! (your ISP will slay you for it) HTH - Peter -----Original Message----- From: Alex Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2003 13:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ cf-dev ] OT: Bulk Email Guys, Don't know if anyone has a lot of experience with bulk email sending, but anyone got any ideas on the sort of infrastructure required to send 50,000 80k emails in 2-3 hours. Obviously a great big fat internet connection which is fine, I'm not sure at this stage whether they would need to be personalised or not, does the new version of CFMX enterprise support this sort of throughput, and does anyone know of a mailserver that would take this sort of hammering? Ta Alex -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
