On 8/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What numbers are you using to stay under the radar? x per hour? x per minute?
The trickler built into my CMS defaults to 5 messages every 5 seconds. That is a burst of 5. A wait of 5 seconds then another burst of 5. Counting the trip to the client and back to run it you're really looking at about 7 seconds, which is good because... This is optimal for a CF server that is set to flush the mail spool every 5 seconds. Since the mail comes in at a roughly slower rate you never back up mail in the spooler. If you don't tune the CF Admin setting (or optimize to whatever its set to by your mail host) then you aren't getting max bang for your buck. If, for example, CF is set to flush every 30 seconds then at my 5/5 default CF is going to pump out 30 messages from your mailer each time (assuming its not too busy to get everything out... you never know on a shared server). Even so I would still use the 5/5 because it provides continual feedback to the client side. Plus I've found over time that taking it in nibbles is better than bites. The tutorial for building one of these is on my web site. If you look it over, try and use the one that introduces failover, as the original is a real mess if it gets interrupted. For lists in excess of 10k maybe you need to take bites. What I have done is run a fairly complex method of automatically running large mailings directly in a browser window on the server, where nobody cares if the browser window is open for 2 hours. I think I have that written up at the site as well. Never think that this method is efficient. Its way over on the opposite side. But the mail gets delivered. The only way you can get tripped up is if you have a rotten list,with genuinely bad addresses. Your mail server will slowly build up retries on your garbage addresses until you do get noticed. So be sure to pay attention to and scrub your bounces. -- --mattRobertson-- Janitor, MSB Web Systems mysecretbase.com <http://mysecretbase.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216361 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
