Karen - call the ISP. They'll give you the limits.
This is what I use based on maximum 53 emails allowed per 5 min. It's a
little conservative, pausing at 40 emails instead of 53 and waiting a
little longer than 5 minutes.
I loop through the db and send the emails individually to each
recipient, I'm not sure if 40 addresses in one "To:" would count as one
or 40 emails.
--Forced pause, RoadRunner doesn't deliver more than 53
IF vCounter = 40 THEN
SET VAR vMsg TEXT = ('40 emails sent, waiting 5 min at' &
(CTXT(.#NOW)) )
PAUSE FOR 320 USING .vMsg
SET VAR vCounter = 0
ENDIF
Doug
On 1/28/2014 2:44 PM, Karen Tellef wrote:
Jan: I'm thinking too whether the email server might have some kind
of "spam" watcher that might not let 300 emails go through... I have an
email to the IT guy telling him what I want to do.
I guess I can test this by having a loop send 300 emails to my junk
email address. Let's see, I can count the emails to see if I get all 300
and then delete them all. Doesn't that sound fun??
Karen
-----Original Message-----
From: jan johansen <[email protected]>
To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 2:27 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Load testing RMail?
Karen,
My limited knowledge says that there is usually a limit per hour.
But in the past I've just run a cursor through the list with a PAUSE
FOR xx
in the loop depending on how many to send.
Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Tellef <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (RBASE-L Mailing
List)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:38:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Load testing RMail?
Now that I have RMail 9.5 up and running, it's time to think
of the next issue I might run into. This client will want to send
emails to "groups" of people at a time. The biggest group right
now has 380 people in it; could go even higher as they continue
to accumulate email addresses.
I'm assuming RBase has no problem "pushing" that many emails
out the door, but do I have to worry about their email server?
Are there questions I can ask their IT guy?
If you think that's too many to send at once, the only thing I
can think of is to accumulate a bunch of "BCC" addresses.
Like maybe a group of 20 BCCs at once? It would take a bit of
programming but wouldn't be impossible. Or have a counter and
have the program do a LONG pause at some point?
Thanks for any suggestions! All I know is that they have some
kind of AT&T service.
Karen
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