I am designing a app that could generate hundreds of thousands of outgoing
email messages a day.
The app is a CF based app, but I do not want to use the webserver or CF to
send the mail. I have been considering 2-3 small machines running only a
SMTP server, all of which share a mapped drive from which they send mail from.
So in other words the web app would write the mail to a shared drive and
the three mail servers would check this drive for mail to send on a
continous basis. The mail may be in three seperate folders (one per
machine) and the webapp would intelligently place the mail to be sent in
the correct folder bases on each particular mailservers load (number of
files in mailservers assigned dir).
Now, what I'd like to know is does this sound like the right way of dealing
with this kind of situation? Is there a inexpensive mail server which can
utilize more than one machine and handle the load balancing itself? Is a
mapped drive on the central mail server a good/bad idea?
Thanks for your help
Brook Davies
maracasmedia inc
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