I am doing a project that is pretty much the same thing right now. The
concerns I had about cfmail was that it serializes the mail queue so only
one mail can go out at a time. That would not work for me because I'm
sending out ten's of thousands of records. The other issue I have is that
this is a service that we plan on selling to many of our clients so I wanted
something quick and robust. This is not cfmail. The last real issue I had
was deciding on what else to use if it wasn't going to be cfmail. I didn't
want to use the aspmail stuff or the infusion products because they are so
slanted towards either asp or cf.
I chose to write the query and database login info to an xml file. Then I
have a scheduled task that runs every couple minutes and calls a script.
This script checks a text file that is also written along with the xml file.
The text file holds the path of the xml file. If the text file has any
entries then the script opens a network connection straight to my pickup
queue for my exchange server and then calls a COM component that I'm still
writing. The com component parses the xml file to get the database info,
runs the query to get the email addresses then starts building smtp files
that I send to the pickup folder for Exchange. I can also set the amount of
files to send per xml file. This is the best that I could come up with. I
can use this now with whatever language I want or even call it directly from
other applications.
As I said, I'm not quite done yet though! This is kind of an extreme
example but necessary for what my company wanted to get out of the app.
Derek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:33 PM
Subject: RE: Mass mailing (typo corrections)
>
> Sorry all some typos :) here it is again
>
> Hi all,
>
> Im working on a project that is going to be sending mass emails, of an opt
> in
> list (so its not Spam, its requested Spam :). And im having concerns
about
> the reliability of cfmail. If anyone could post any experiences with
> good/bad, fixes, workarounds, tags more reliable, basically anything that
> has to do with mass emailing.
>
> Personally I haven't had any troubles with fail, but I haven't really
tested
> it with mass emailing either, so any insight is appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> Jeff
>
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