>I have heard horror stories of CFMAIL overloading mail servers.
The pb seems to be more that the CFMAIL SMTP client tends to pile up msgs
in the CF send mail queue when there is a hiccup and has to be kicked to
start sending again, or at least that seemed to be a frequently reported pb.
It is possible for an SMTP client to look like a "thundering herd" to one
SMTP server when delivering tons of mail to a one given server (assuming
you sort destination address so all msgs for a destination can be delivered
in one SMTP session, avoiding DNS lookups and session overheads), but if
your CFMAIL delivery is sprayed over an assortment of SMTP servers, I
wouldn't worry about that herd pb. The net tends to govern mail deliver
speeds more than CFMAIL's sending capacity.
But if your CFMAIL usage is going to dump all mail on a local SMTP server's
ip address that will relay the mail to the net, then the pb might
arise. This is a good approach that offloads delivery from CFMAIL quickly
and reliably.
2000 mails a day is really peanuts, only 3 per minute per 10 hour day. yawn
Len
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