Howie, I downloaded the docs and will be reading them tomorrow to check out
the program's capabilities. Looks good so far though.
Coincidentally, I also tinkered with using MS's SMTP service fromt he Option
Pack. It has a "pickup" directory where I tested dropping text files into
it using CFFILE and seeing how fast they would get relayed to out "real"
SMTP server. It sent 100 emails almost faster than I could look at the
spool (less than 2 seconds). Not too bad for an initial test.
So far it looks way faster than CF's mail spool and also allowed me to
overcome several of the other problems I've been having such as setting the
"return-path" header using CFMAILPARAM. Also, it will do it's own retries
so you don't have to worry about the undeliv directory anymore with this.
Did I mention this was a free solution?
Has anyone else tried using the SMTP service that comes with the Option
Pack? Any problems? Scalability? Security? Scalability? I would love to
hear about anyone's good or bad experience with it (real experience, not
"once i heard it sucked" kinda comments).
I only plan to use it as a direct relay to a full scale mailserver...
There's no reason to have SMTP taking CPU/bandwidth from my CF servers doing
MX lookups and sending to a large number of domains. If I can prove that
it's a stable relay, I will probably write a set of custom tags to replace
CFMAIL and CFMAILPARAM using the MS-SMTP service.
Of course, I am also still gonna read up on iMS and any other suggestions
anyone may have. Advice?
-Cameron
--------------------
Cameron Childress
elliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
f.770.460.0963
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howie Hamlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 8:37 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Replacements for CFMAIL
>
>
> POST-SE was free for a while but it expired after a year. iMS-SE
> (it's replacement) does not expire. Also, the impending upgrade
> to iMS 2.1 will be free for all iMS users.
>
> iMS-SE allows you to use one of 4 methods for sending mail:
>
> CFMAIL
> CFX tag
> COM Object
> "Roll your own" (the specs on how to send mail are published and
> we do have users who do it this way).
>
> Regards,
>
> Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager
> On-Line Data Solutions, Inc.
> www.CoolFusion.com
> 631-737-4668 x101
> inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - The Intelligent Mail Server
> Join the DevCon community at www.coolfusion.com/devcon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cameron Childress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:32 PM
> Subject: Replacements for CFMAIL
>
>
> > I'm looking for suggestions on replacements for CFMAIL which
> would NOT use
> > the cfusion/mail/spool like CFX_MAIL does. I am looking at iMS POST SE
> > (shoulda snagged it when it was free, wasn't it free for awhile?). Any
> > others worth mentioning? I only need to SEND mail right now...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Cameron
> >
> > --------------------
> > Cameron Childress
> > elliptIQ Inc.
> > p.770.460.7277.232
> > f.770.460.0963
> > --
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> >
> >
> >
>
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