Hi Philip,
No-one seems to be about and I am sitting here bored on a Saturday evening with
nothing but elections (local State) or a war on the TV, maybe I should get a social
life! :-), so here is a delayed answer.
>Now, I've done some testing, and unless I've screwed up the settings
>with my experiments, then I think it's not running at the speed we
>expected
>
>As a test I've build 1,000 simple HTML emails, nothing major, just a
>sample text with some formatting
>
>CF builds them within a second or so - fantastic
Do I assume that you are creating a 1,000 individual mail files?
>iMS takes 1 minute 20 to put all 1,000 into the mail queue folder - I'm
>assuming it's an OS speed issue
and then using the CFX_iMSMail tag to get them into the iMS system?
>At 5 minutes it "starts" to send - starts moving them out of the DelPend
>folder
>At 7 minutes 15 seconds it's cleared out all 1,000
What is happening in the queue folder? What iMS does is to send the mail but not
delete the mail file immediately, it does that later on a scheduled basis so the files
disappearing does not indicate it has just been sent, it went some time before that. I
would look in the POST log file to see what is really happening in the actual sending.
>Now, it's not just the 5 minutes which is worrying me, but the 2 minutes
>15 seconds to clear 1000 emails ... data snipped ...
The sending rate is almost totally governed by the server's connection to the 'net,
bandwidth of pipe and speed of DNS lookups, if the server has reasonable grunt, which
your spec indicates. We had a post on this List recently where someone was complaining
about delivery speed for HTML emails and it turned out that they were running their
pipe flat out! You also need an effective local DNS server so working out where to
send the mail is not a significant overhead.
--
Yours,
Kym
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