I'm not very familiar with perl at all. I'm getting ready to move to a
dedicated Windows server. Is this something I could do from there?
That was one thing I thought about as well was the requesttimeout and
the time the user would have to sit there while the CF page processed
all of those mails (unless I created a CF Schedule event or something to
do the mail). How much control do you have over the outgoing mail if
you did it in perl? I know I need to do the usual spam avoidance
techniques and headers to make sure it gets to the person. Any info,
resources or direction you could give would be great!
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:49 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Sending lots of mail
> Is there some kind of software
> (preferrably cheap or free) that can actually handle the "mailing"
> part in the background without slowing down CF?
We've written a mailing-list-manager type app here which allows the user
to send combined plain text/HTML emails to an opt-in mailing list. All
creation of mails etc is handled by ColdFusion but the actual sending is
done using a perl script run as a cron job.
Doing it this way takes lots of load off the server and speeds up the
process (the user doesn't have to wait for 10s of thousands of mails to
be sent - can you imagine the requesttimeout setting on that?!), and
even means we can generate the mail from one server (the CF/web server)
and send it from another (a dedicated "mailing" server).
Tim.
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