And its Advantages over ASPMAIL? I had to ask. Maybe Howie will field that
one....
Brook
At 03:27 PM 06/01/01 -0800, you wrote:
>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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