Hi Michael,
I have alot to say about this. I too am using Post.Office 3.5x (isn't that
what you use?) and have run into this same problem. I have a mailing list
that I keep an archive for. I used a Post.Office account to just "collect"
the messages just like you. By the time I got around to downloading and
databasing them, the account had thousands of messages in it. The main
problem that I found absolutely no way of getting around (programmatically)
was that NEITHER Cold Fusion CF_POP or CFX_iiPOP3 could seem to DELETE a
message from the server once it was read--this is a BIG problem :-).
What I actually wound up doing was setting up a temporary account on
Post.Office, then I just went to the server and manually transfered about
600 messages at a time by copying & deleting the individual mail files from
their original location to the IN folder for the new account. Next I
"processed those files" with a Cold Fusion template that would download and
database from the temporary account. Finally, I would delete the 600
messages from the temporary account and then start over. Needless to say,
this did not make me happy.
Six hundered messages seemed to be optimum. I discovered this by trying to
grab between 100 and 1000 messages at a time until I came up with a number
that seemed to work best. Once I got the number of waiting messages down to
something reasonable, I just set up a scheduled task that frequently checked
this account. The only time I really have problems is when there are more
than 100 messages waiting, so I just don't let that happen now.
I should note that the mail server machine I'm using is only a Pentium 100,
so this could be partly responsible for my troubles.
Hope this helps,
Eron
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CFPop alternative
I've been saving all the lists at House of Fusion over to an archive account
on the mail server. The idea was to read out the mail into a DB and provide
it online. Problem is, the account has over 45,000 emails in it (way over).
CFPOP really doesn't like dealing with this and always returns errors, even
when asking for a single message. Does anyone have a CFPOP alternative?
Something that could possibly allow me to grab these messages. We're talking
a years worth of list data.
Alternatively, if anyone has a complete mail archive of CFTALK, I'd be quite
happy to convert that. One of the goals is to get a CD archive that people
can have. We missed the deadline for the CFUN2K conference, but the hope is
to get the Allaire conference.
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