Thanks Kym (long time no speak <g>) It worried the hell out of me that the sending speed was so low, at least now I can rest easy and get on with building my email app...
Philip Arnold Technical Director Certified ColdFusion Developer ASP Multimedia Limited Switchboard: +44 (0)20 8680 8099 Fax: +44 (0)20 8686 7911 www.aspmedia.co.uk www.aspevents.net An ISO9001 registered company. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. ********************************************************************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Kym Kovan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 March 2003 10:33 > To: inFusion Support List > Subject: Re: [iMS] POST Speed - am I doing something wrong? > > > 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 > ==^======================================================= This list server is Powered by iMS "The Swiss Army Knife of Mail Servers" -------------------------------------- To leave this list please complete the form at http://www.coolfusion.com/Support/ Need an iMS Developer license? Sign up for a free license here: http://www.coolfusion.com/Support/ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/inFusion-email%40eoscape.com/ Note: You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^=======================================================
