We wrote an email marketing system that we used for about 8 years. Our
experience was that CFMAIL, since CF 7 at least, is plenty fast enough to send
out very large numbers of emails. The ColdFusion programming was the easy side
of things.
The challenges were on the systems side. Email
Here is what I've learned over the past week on this topic (talk about a timely
posting). I have a simple app that I use to send email blasts to my neighbors
about neighborhood events, etc. There is a database with the emails (about 150
records), and I just loop over it and do a CFMAIL to
The other moral of the story is to run your own mail server. Odds are you
won't be blacklisting yourself ;-)
Wil Genovese
Sr. Web Application Developer/
Systems Administrator
Wil Genovese Consulting
wilg...@trunkful.com
www.trunkful.com
On Aug 8, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Reed Powell wrote:
So
As an ISP, it isn't self-blacklisting that is the issue; if we get crap
from other servers, depending on the situation, we may blacklist
immediately. Once those limits are hit, you won't be getting mail here,
legitimate or otherwise. AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc. all have similar
technologies
There will be a problem if this goes to aol, yahoo, gmail, att, etc..
if you send too many emails in a short period of time, they
blacklist you and the emails just disappear.
I send a newsletter out to about 12,000 people and a few years ago
experimented on how many I could send at one time..
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:47 PM, cfcom cf...@aceligent.com wrote:
Several hundred thousand, possible 2MM
You really need to look at one of the commercial mass mailing
services. If you try to send that many emails off your own servers,
you're almost certain to get yourself blacklisted. At
This is much bigger than a CFML issue...
I could, and for the unfortunate bystanders, have talked for hours about the
problem of email. We are a website design and Hosting company and yet my
biggest expenditure in time and resources goes to email and email issues. -
oops I started pontificating
As I understand it, the blacklisting services look NOT for large volumes of
mail, but substantial and/or sudden changes. I had a spammer get through
my defences once and set up hosting with me. Immediately he started sending
volumes of email. Within 24 hours our ip addresses were blacklisted,
We have to do a large mailing in-house. Has anyone written an Email
Broadcasting system in Coldfusion and/or can recommend one?
Thank you
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If this is a one-off mailing, do you need a system to do it?
If you have the body text and the mailing list all you need to do is:
cfset mailBody = This is my e-mail message
cfloop list=#myMailingList# index=currMailAddress
cfmail from=[your from address] subject=SPAM
to=#currMailAddress#
We have to do a large mailing in-house. Has anyone
written an Email Broadcasting system in Coldfusion
and/or can recommend one?
How large do you consider large?
-Justin
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Many years ago I wrote a system to read the email addresses from the
database and send them in manageable chunks using CFMAIL. Is that
what you need? If so, let me know and I'll dig out the code from my
archives.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:06 AM, cfcom cf...@aceligent.com wrote:
We have to do
Don't forget that many years ago CFMAIL was not capable of whatever
silly high throughput it now is (I think I've read over 1 million mails
per minute).
So manageable chunks may no longer matter...just sayin ;-)
volume shall dictate approach as always ;-)
Cheers
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 13:11
CFMail wasn't the problem then..the mail server bandwidth was. Chunks
are configurable as well.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Bryan Stevenson
br...@electricedgesystems.com wrote:
Don't forget that many years ago CFMAIL was not capable of whatever
silly high throughput it now is (I think
ahhhthat was MANY many years ago then ;-)
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 13:44 -0700, Maureen wrote:
CFMail wasn't the problem then..the mail server bandwidth was. Chunks
are configurable as well.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Bryan Stevenson
br...@electricedgesystems.com wrote:
Don't
Ya, back then CF mail had to actually carve a stone tablet for each message.
It took forever.
I jokes with you Mo.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Bryan Stevenson
br...@electricedgesystems.com wrote:
ahhhthat was MANY many years ago then ;-)
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 13:44 -0700, Maureen
Several hundred thousand, possible 2MM
-Original Message-
From: Justin Scott [mailto:jscott-li...@gravityfree.com]
Sent: 2010-08-06 14:48
To: cf-talk
Subject: RE: CFML broadcasting app
We have to do a large mailing in-house. Has anyone
written an Email Broadcasting system
Don't forget that many years ago CFMAIL was not
capable of whatever silly high throughput it now
is (I think I've read over 1 million mails per
minute).
Remember also that the tag just writes the message to disk for the delivery
spooler to pick up and hand off to your SMTP relay (in the
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