Hi Joel This would no doubt cause some delay on your mail spool, I do recall that CF used to have a limit of 40 on the cc/bcc fields but I think this was fixed in version 5 upwards.
I guess you could test it and see what happens, say to a gmail account. If you did go down the route of looping cfmail you could maybe cause a delay between each occurance of the tag by using say a udf to cause a pause in the code: http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm/sleep Also be sure to keep your emails layout to a minimun / not html heavy etc. Sorry for the rushed response. HTH Jose Diaz On 5/11/07, Joel Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a forum in which users can subscribe to particular threads. When > other users make replies, all users who are subscribed to the thread will > receive an email (basic stuff, I know). > > My question is regarding what the best practice for handling this mailing > should be. > > Currently, I am querying my db to get the emails of subscribed > users. Using the listAppend function, I create a list of emails and pass it > into the bcc field (I don't want every user to get the emails of every other > subscribed user). > > Right now, this is not a problem as the user base is small. However, if > it increases (and I expect it to very soon), I am wondering if this is the > best way to do this. > > So my question is this: Would it be best to continue with what I am doing > (list of addresses), and is there a certain limit to the number of addresses > that can be in the bcc field? > > Or...should I loop over the cfmail tag itself, running the tag the same > number of times as there are subscribed users? In this option, are there > going to be significant performance issues if, say, there are 500 subscribed > users (thus the cfmail tag running 500 times?) > > And, of course, there may be other ways to do this entirely that are > better than either of these options. I am definitely open to those as well. > > Thanks! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:277733 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
