something else kind of struck me when looking at your tag documentation...
you are writing to the spool directory :) good...
Now a lot of people have been on the list complaining about CF and its
inability to manage large volume mailings... without disk issues, bugs,
slowness, etc...
I was wondering if you or anyone else had looked at the actual MAIL SPOOL on
your mail server... Here is my next generation concept for your program and
people developing mail stuff with regard to customized volume oriented
programs...
1. Run the query..
2. Construct the messages.
3. Rather than parsing to the spool directory:
A. format the output to meet the standard mail specification.
B. Parse the completed specification emailing to the mail servers outgoing
directory...
Anyone done anything like this?
We run Mdaemon which is plain text files in directories just like CF... the
specification would be simple to duplicate without documentation... Most of
the other programs like SLMAIL and other 3rd party use text file format...
not sure about Microsofts que...
Anyone think such an approach might be worth investing time to attempt???
At any such point that this were to work, one would only be limited by the
power of their email servers to send mail out...
Maybe all that is obvious... Additionally, note, that this wouldn't work in
situations where your email server is a shared resource of your hosting
company/isp... I doubt they really support people parsing out volumes of
email to their servers anyways :)
-paris
-----Original Message-----
From: Paris Lundis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 14:49
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: cf_advancedemail version 2 beta testing
looks good :)
We will test it over this weekend likely...
-paris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 14:44
To: CF-Talk
Subject: cf_advancedemail version 2 beta testing
Hi all,
just wanted to announce that cf_advancedemail version 2 has gone to beta
and that I could use some help with testing.
What is cf_advancedemail?
cf_advancedemail is a custom tag that lets you send email in both plain
text and HTML, and include images in the email message, so the images
are also available when the reader is off-line.
Does it work?
From my server (CF 4.5.2 SP2 on NT) to Mozilla and Outlook it does. For
the rest I don't know, and that is where I need help.
How expensive is it?
Free. BSD licence, so you are even allowed to use this tag in a project
you sell to a customer without having to pay anything. (For version 1
you had to pay in the past, but no more.)
How does it work?
In its simplest form it works like this:
<cf_advancedemail from="me@domain" to="you@domain">
<cf_advancedemailparam URL="url" tempdir="path">
</cf_advancedemail>
This would send an email in both plain text and HTML with all that is at
the URL, and all images references at the URL. More advanced options
include specifying a different plaintext and HTML text, cache control,
advanced previewing etc.
How can I help?
Download the tag, install it and try it. I am especially looking for
people who can test it on Solaris, HP-UX and Linux.
The other thing is that if you have a really exotic email client you can
send me an email (off-list) and I will send you a test message and you
can tell me how it looks.
Where to get it?
http://jochem.vandieten.net/coldfusion/customtags/advancedemail/
Thanx,
Jochem
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