On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:55:13 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Alex Skinner")
wrote:>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? Most of the decent unix mail servers (qmail, exim, postfix) would probably handle that no problem. Most of the bottle necks are in the opening and closing of the SMTP sessions and having to queue mails you cannot deliver and retry them later. If I were you, I would set it up so you have CFMX deliver via SMTP to one smart host (ideally yours) and then have that box do the final delivery. peter -- peter gradwell. gradwell dot com Ltd. http://www.gradwell.com/ -- engineering & hosting services for email, web and usenet -- -- http://www.peter.me.uk/ -- http://www.jalamex.com/ -- -- ** 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]
