Of course, one of the alternatives is to have multiple hosts pumping out the e-mails if this is a time-critical mail shot.
- Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Fennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 5:53 PM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT: Bulk Email Surpisingly enough 4.5 was a ikkle devil and got the job done more quickly but that's because it doesn't worry about small details like freeing up the memory it used after it's finished and other resourse management that 5 and above do - one of the sticky points in sending mail is just to make sure your send spool isn’t to high that your trying to send all 150 in one go - about the range 15 - 40 seconds sound mean that you can handle your size for quite some time to come- afaik on my old allaire docs cfmail for 4.5 was held around the 75,k an hour mark but I could be wrong :) -----Original Message----- From: Ian Westbrook (ASE) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2003 14:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] OT: Bulk Email >On test boxes, the CFMAIL tag has been clocking delivery of > over 1,000,000 messages an hour!" so what does 4.5 manage, then? ATM my app is only sending a total of about 150, but I'd like to be warned in advance if 4.5 doesn't scale very well... Ian W ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Fennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:01 PM Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT: Bulk Email > Well if ben is to believed > > > " For starters, in ColdFusion MX 6.1 Enterprise, it is possible to > allocate multiple mail delivery threads and also keep SMTP connections > open. The combination of these two features introduces mail delivery > throughput that exceeds anything possible in prior versions of > ColdFusion. On test boxes, the CFMAIL tag has been clocking delivery of > over 1,000,000 messages an hour!" > > http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/articles/intro_61.html > > > > -----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] > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 27/11/2003 > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 27/11/2003 > > > > -- > ** 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] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 27/11/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.545 / Virus Database: 339 - Release Date: 27/11/2003 -- ** 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]
