This one wasn't - same message to all people. How we have done it is by using MailKing locally to connect to our DB of users and send out message. So, locally it generates all the messages to the users in the DB and puts it in an outbox - once the messages have been generated, the outbox then connects to the SMTP server and starts sending the messages to the spool folder.
I can see how a list server would be better here. Now, IMAIL has a list mananger, how come I couldn't import my huge list into it, and then send the email to that one address and have IMAIL do the rest? So, I just got buy off on the purchase of the server. Once I get the server, I will install FreeBSD and then give you access to do your thing - correct? Also, what about a webserver that runs on FreeBSD - any thoughts? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Perfect Mail Server > > >The database merge. When I tried to send a big blast, we only could send > >about 4,000 an hour. > > so these are per-user custom messages? (specific message body per user) > > and not one msg body for all users? The two types of message provide very > different loads on the mail server. > > In a list server, the app sends one msg to the list server post addresse > and the list server that into x,000 identical msgs to the smtp server. > > In per-user, the app sends x,000 messages to the SMTP server. totally > different situation. the latter can be much slower throughput than the former. > > Len > > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
