RE: OT Suggestions for Email Servers

[Jay Sudowski - Handy Networks LLC]

Hi Chris,

I'd have to recommend iMS - http://www.coolfusion.com/iMS.cfm.  While
never using it, it seems to be a much better solutions, as it supports
up to 1024 concurrent connections (meaning, you can send up to 1024
emails at once!).  If you using CFMAIL, and with the include IIS SMTP
server, you'll only be able to send 400 messages a minute max because
CFMAIL can only spool 100 messages every 15 seconds.

Hope this helps.

Jay Sudowski
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Martinez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:04 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT Suggestions for Email Servers


All,

Our shop has repeated requests for bulk email apps.  Some of our lists
are over 100,000 recipients long.  Past attempts to provide this service
have yielded nothing but headaches.  We are using an email server called
MailMax. No matter what we do, server cannot handle the number of emails
that are sent to it's queue.  Now management has tasked me with coming
up with a permanent solution.

My first suggestion was to move the mail server off the web server and
place it on it's own machine.

I am also leaning towards Linux as the OS, because of it's stability,
and the fact that there is less overhead involved.

There are tons of email servers out there, and I just want something
that won't have to have a babysitter.  What have you had experience
with?  Would you use it again?  What features did you like/dislike.
Stability?  Limits?

If this is too off topic you can email me off list:

Thanks,

Chris Martinez

Chris underscore Martinez at Imaginuity dot Com
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