I want to point out, that CFMAIL is not intended for this purpose.
I worked with one company that did a similar thing. The e-mail newsletter
was small, the number of people on their mailing list (~8000) were not.
The marketing people in the company declared the the e-mail must be
sent manually, and therefore during the day.
You get in the morning and everything works great.
Around 10:30 - 11, they start the process manually chugging.
Everything internet would ground to a halt until 2, when it finished.
It sucked up all the resources on the live server, and the T1 line that
it was running on.
It's the most ludricious way I've ever seen to implement a mailing list,
especially when there are many programs designed to do tasks just like
this (Lyris, for example).
Anyway, now that I'm done ranting. Server admin issues are not
my specialty, however if I understand what's going on here, any
server timeout with relation to sending mail is how long it waits for
a response from the mail server. It would not be advisable to set this
to an infinite value.
Is it perhaps that your problem is with the page timing out, not with
the CFMAIL tag? You can extend the time a page is allowed to execute
before being shut off by your CF server by appending: requesttimeout=X
where X is the number of seconds you want the page to wait for.
Jason Larson wrote:
> I have a small newsletter app, that loops through a list of email's and
> sends a newsletter to each email in the query, using the cfmail tag.
>
> We have been having some time out issues with the cfmail tag. I relieve that
> you can set the cfmail tag to overide the server timout settings, but I was
> wondering if you could set the cfmail tag to not time out at all?
>
> Jason Larson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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