I have a simple taf that loops through a database of my customers and sends them an e-Mail whenever I have a new release of my software for them to upgrade. Right now the database has about 3000 records.
This is a fairly straight-forward taf, builds a table, loops through the table extracting e-mail address and name, then sends the mail. I've been using this for a couple of years. I typically have to increase the server timeout when I do this, and recently have been breaking the mailing into 1000 record increments. Last night when I ran this, I couldn't get hardly any throughput. Witango would release a record to the mailserver about every 12-15 seconds. Normally it sends records to the mailserver just as fast as it can. Also no other mail usually gets through until the job is done. But now, I see other mail being processed in between the mail coming from Witango. I don't recall any changes (famous last words, I know...) and I'd love to fix the blame on the mail server, but I can see the records coming to it... ever so slowly. Any ideas on what might cause this throttling of records to the mail server? The mail server and witango are on the same box; not good I know, but I don't have lots of volume or other users hitting it. Oh, yeah, I took the database completely out of the equation. Now all I have is a loop that calls the mail action. Loops from 1 to 30 sending out a blank text-formatted e-Mail. Still takes 12-15 seconds to release each record to the mailserver. Mail Server is Mercury/32 if that matters. No changes there either. Any ideas at all would be a help. Thanks, Tom Ferguson ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
