----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk De Bock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [iMS] iMS 1.5 Final Beta now available
> I'm about to venture into a 40.00 accounts announce list. I guess I should
> split these up in groups of a few hundred at a time, and group by e-mail
> domain to get maximum efficiency?
>
The CFX_iMSMail tag does the domain sorting for you...
> I shall also want to include a custom header holding the id of the
> subscriber account to easliy deal with returned mails etc. Will this not
> interfere with the idea of the single message and control file?
>
The answer to this is yes and no. CFX_iMSMail will still create a single
control file per domain but there is a difference in how the mail is
actually delivered by the POST Server. Here's what I mean:
Non-custom mail:
1 - POST Connects to remote server
2 - POST Issues RCPT commands until the remote server issues an error that
there are too many recipients (this is a rare occurance)
3 - POST Server sends the mail
4 - If there are more recipients then the POST Server goes back to step 2.
Custom Mail:
1 - POST connects to remote server
2 - POST Issues a RCPT command for a single recipient
3 - POST Server sends the mail (customized)
4 - If there are more recipients then the POST Server goes back to step 2.
So, when sending custom mail the delivery will definitely take longer. For
low numbers of recipients in a single domain then it's fine to have all
recipients in a singel control file.
Oh, one other thing to consider - when I mentioned custom mail I meant mail
that uses the list of standard tokens (like the subject header or the
SMTPTO). If you want mail that says "Dear John Smith" then you need
separate control files per recipient. Don't hold me to this but there will
probably be a future enhancement that allows you to specify a token field in
a query or have individual tokens per recipient in the same control file.
What I mean by the query token field is something like:
Query returns the following:
email: email address
fullname: full name
<cfx_imsmail ... querytoken_name="fullname" ...>
And then the tag would pull the fullname field from the query.
Again, this is not a current feature...
Regards,
Howie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tac/Smokescreen Action Network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [iMS] iMS 1.5 Final Beta now available
>
>
> > Use the QUERY="" attribute, and cfx_imail will do all the hard work. In
> > fact, that's the fastest way, since it will then group together all the
> > e-mails going to the same domain, creating just a single message and
> control
> > file.
>
>
>
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