Karen,
I do know that when I am constantly getting new PDF files for a group of customers, (it creates the pdf the attaches it to each customer email) such as shipping notifications, I use a while loop to accomplish this. I do not think it takes that long between each email, however. But our PDF files are small, around 10K each. When getting PDF files that are larger for assembly drawings (but this is actually printing them), there is definitely a longer time between each print job. James Belisle Making Information Systems People Friendly Since 1990 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Tellef Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 2:22 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RMail question Using RMail on a 32-bit 9.5 system. Client is going to be interested in sending out an email with attachment to a very large group of people. When I test this with 30 people, emails without an attachment take about 2-3 seconds to send out. When I include a 1.7MB PDF file as an attachment, each email takes about 1 min 15 seconds which won't be real easy with hundreds to send out. (I ran it from the server itself, not a workstation) So first question is if this seems like a "normal" amount of time. Otherwise, should I think about instead doing a "bcc" to everyone? Is there a practical limit to the number of "add_bcc_recipient" addresses I can do in one email, or is it simply based on an email server's spam limit? I guess I would declare a cursor, set a counter loop and keep sending "add_bcc_recipient" for a bunch of them, right? Karen
