Without testing, I'd tend to agree with the people suggesting a separate mail server...for the same reasons it's usually a good idea to have a separate database server.
Having said that, if you're pinching pennies, you could test by looking at Performance Monitor and/or FusionReactor (if you have it) *while* the CF server is sending the email to see how RAM is being consumed, whether page-serve times slow, etc and make your decision based on those results. -- John Bliss - http://about.me/jbliss On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Mark Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Curious as to others thoughts on this. We have a legacy system running CF > 8 that uses IIS SMTP service on the web server to send all emails from CF. > The volume could be multiple thousands per day. We are having a discussion > about pointing CF at an external exchange server to handle sending the > email. Some are saying IIS SMTP doesn't affect overall web server > performance by sending all those emails. Seems like it would/should cause > performance issues on web server. any thoughts? > > Thanks > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston > ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en
