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From: "Bob Silverberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "inFusion Support List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: [iMS] RE: [ODS Support] Any Newbie Resources for iMS Post-SE?
> Thanks Howie. I think that should get me started. I just spent about an
> hour looking through the archives too, and picked up some info there.
>
> I'd just like to summarize my understanding, and ask for your (and/or the
> list's) confirmation and feedback:
>
> CFX_iMSMail is not really an exact replacement for CFMAIL, in that it
cannot
> produce customized emails the same way. With CFMAIL you can call the tag
> once, and produce a number of customized emails based on fields included
in
> a query. With CFX_iMSMail you need to call the tag for _each_ individual
> custom email.
>
> The best way to do the above with CFX_iMSMail is to do a CFLOOP on your
> query. Within the loop you would set a variable to the body text (which
you
> would dynamically generate), and then pass that variable to the BODY=
> attribute of the CFX_iMSMail tag.
>
Yes, this is true. A future release of iMS/cfx_imsmail will allow for
enhanced functionality. However, although cfx_imsmail is not a direct
replacement for cfmail, it does allow you to do many more things than
cfmail - and is also much faster as it puts the mail directly into the iMS
queue instead of the cf mail spool.
> Is that the best way to do it? And if so, what are the performance
> implications (i.e., is it advisable to do this if you are producing
> thousands of emails)?
>
I know of several sites that send out thousands of custom emails so I think
it works fine.
> A couple of other questions:
>
> 1. Is the current version of the CFX Tag (version 2.3, dated December 15,
> 2000) thread-safe, or should CFLOCK be used with it?
>
That version is not thread-safe but we use it here without locks and have
had no problems. There was a 2.4 version that had thread-safe code but we
had to pull it because some clients had trouble with it. We'll be retooling
the tag after iMS 2.0 is released.
> 2. Are there any known issues with running iMS Post-SE on the same machine
> as SQL Server 2000 (its use would be minimal)?
>
I don't think this is any problem.
Regards,
Howie
> Thanks again for your help,
> Bob
>
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