Place the attatchment in a folder on the CF server and send the html Shortcut file 1k. When they click it will download it.
Rick Eidson
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Purtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:50 AM
To: KCFusion (E-mail)
Subject: [KCFusion] More efficient CF email with attachments
One of my most successful projects here is a broadcast email tool that lets
managers send messages to segments of the corporation, or to everyone. It's
currently set up to send each message separately to our email server, which
prevents someone from doing a Reply to All (management wanted this
restriction). They can also send an attachment, which is where we got into
trouble yesterday. A manager sent mail to the entire corporation with a
897kb attachment. About 290 of our employees are now in the database CF uses
to find email addresses. So it had to send an 897kb attachment to our email
server 290 times. The CF server slowed to a crawl. Then I started getting
error messages and had to re-boot.
When I discussed possible solutions with my boss, he pointed out that the
machine hosting the email server (IMail) is a more powerful device.
Therefore we should find some way to shift the load. He suggested we create
an email list in IMail to include all employee addresses, and send broadcast
messages from the CF server to that list. Unfortunately ColdFusion is not
installed on the email server, so I would have to manually maintain the
employee email list there.
There must be an alternative. Any tips? Preferably some way to tweak CF to
handle this kind of load? We're running CF5 on NT4.
Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator
VantageMed Operations (Kansas City)
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