Jochem, You know what would make this even more useful? If there was a "DELAY" value somewhere in there. So when sending huge volume mailings we could break them down into timed chunks like we were talking about last week.
So say: VOLUME = 20000 DELAY = -1 Would send out 20k messages and then wait until the spool was empty to send the next 20k, all the way until the end of the query. VOLUME = 20000 DELAY = 600 That would send out 20k messages every 600 seconds. Delay of 0 would just be no delay at all. Sound like something you could build in? I've been trying to do a custom version of this for the past week and failing miserably. =P -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bryant Tyson, WEB DEVELOPER http://webtys.com WebTY's, The Educated Choice. On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Paris Lundis wrote: > 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 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
