Brook,
Your options really depend on how you are generating the emails. If you
expect high traffic and use CFFILE to write each mail to disk, you could
kill the server especially over a shared network device.
Is this for a mailing list (e.g. Majordomo) where one email is sent out to
hundreds of people? Or is this for sending a unique piece of email to each
individual address (e.g. "This is your daily fortune Cookie")?
In either case, a few linux boxes with Postfix (qmail on steroids)
installed to act as smtp mail relays works really well. You can generate
each piece of email from a database queue (or however you want) using CF
(or perl) on a regular basis and send the email directly to the Postfix
servers. They'll take most of the load of delivery and bounceback off of
the CF server, because you have 3 mail machines taking all the load of DNS
lookups, delivery, and bounceback.
My 2 cents,
-_ brett
At 02:57 PM 1/6/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>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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