If it helps, I sent out 315 html emails of 25.3 KB each, no attachments,
in 1:33. But that includes a 5 minute pause every 40 emails per my ISP,
so actual "mail time" was about an hour. Each one one was sent
individually via a cursor.
It would interesting to see how multiple addressees per email would
affect the time.
ISP upload speed is a bit north of 1 Mbps per http://www.speedtest.net/
and http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
Doug
"It's hard to explain puns to a kleptomaniac because they always take
things literally."
On 5/16/2014 2:22 PM, Karen Tellef wrote:
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
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