Mike,
If a List is not possible (each message is customized), then it may be best
if the 14K messages can be feed to IMail at a controlled rate, rather than
all at one time. Depending on your system, bandwidth, other traffic and
such, you should be able to handle that many messages in a couple of hours
or less. If you have significant other traffic, then you might want to shoot
for a lower delivery rate to/from IMail.
If you do use a list, set the 'Max recpients per message' to 750 or 1000 for
this list and that will cause IMail to create 21/14 messages in the Queue
each with 750/1000 email addresses. 500 could be a good setting,if your
system did nothing else, but it would make 28 msgs and processes, leaving
only 2 for other email (if you do not up the number of SMTP Processes).
Don't go setting MaxQueProc right up to 100, please! Without knowing your
system and how it performs with the standard 30 (and what other tasks it
might be doing), a big change in SMTP processes, could cause more problems
than it solves. I'd recommend no more than about a 50-100% (from 30 to 45-60
proccesses) increase at any one time, less if you have a limited system or
other important tasks for the system. The list server for this forum is set
to 60 and all our forums is its only task. At times it can have all 60
SMTP32 processes running, but that is not very often.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Varre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:07 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] 14,000 remote email addresses
> There is a person in my organization that needs to send an email to 14,000
> remote email addresses. What is the best way to go about doing this? I
> don't want it to crash the Imail or even the server if it gets too
> overloaded.
> Michael Varre
> goChatPlus.com
> Project Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 315.475.0500
>
>
>
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