As Howie Hamlin will so promptly point out on his next visit to the list,
check out Infusion Mail Server at www.coolfusion.com. It handles piles and
piles of mail and is beautiful with CF together.
NAT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 3:36 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Re: lots of email
>
>
> My suggestion... use ASPMAIL, this mail utility is great and has
> been tested
> to handle lot's of load.
> While the CFMAIL tag is good it was never created to be use for bulk
> mailing.
>
> I suggest you go to www.serverobjects.com and check it out, it also has a
> custom tag you can download in the colfusion developers
> forums.
>
> http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=CA347149-28
> 30-11D4-AA
> 9700508B94F380&method=Full
>
> http://www.serverobjects.com/products.htm#aspmail
>
> Non-Queuing: average messages per hour: 10800 (only using 12 threads)
> Queuing (AspQMail): average messages per hour: 38880 (only using
> 12 threads)
> *Single processor Pentium 200 under IIS; up to 40 concurrent messages
>
> 1 processor cost $50 and very well spent $$ too
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brook Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 2:57 PM
> Subject: OT: lots of email
>
>
> > 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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