> We've written our own 'spooling system' using SQL Server and an > event script > to fire off Jmail every five minutes. We've found this works a lot better > than CF for bulk mail as you can use Microsoft's SMTP server and > the pickup > directory.
You can also use CFFILE to write directly to the Microsoft's SMTP server pickup directory. We do this and it works great. Set up the SMTP server purely as a relay off to a "real" mailserver, and messages fly off the machine. Plus you are allowing the right tool to do the right job. CF isn't a mass mailing server, it's an application server. A server designed specifically for handling email is virtually always going to beat one that just "also features" email capability. -Cameron -------------------- Cameron Childress elliptIQ Inc. p.770.460.1035.232 f.770.460.0963 -- http://www.neighborware.com America's Leading Community Network Software > -----Original Message----- > From: Darryl Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:01 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFMAIL Spooling > > > We've written our own 'spooling system' using SQL Server and an > event script > to fire off Jmail every five minutes. We've found this works a lot better > than CF for bulk mail as you can use Microsoft's SMTP server and > the pickup > directory. > > Darryl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2001 12:06 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: CFMAIL Spooling > > > Thanks, Tom. Not even through a registry setting, eh? > > Looks like any CF applications we had written for CF4 which were doing a > self-paced delivery of messages should be rewritten. There's not > much sense > in it if CF has a maximum delivery speed of 400 messages per minute. I > suppose 24,000 messages per hour is reasonable, but if you've got the > processing power and adequate bandwidth, I don't understand why > they'd want > to impose this limit. > > The 64k limit of email message files in the spool directory, if I > recall, is > due to CF's file-naming convention. Is CF smart enough to re-use > file names > in a cyclic manner - moving files out of the spool in a way that lets it > re-use file names such that you can always get 64k files in the spool? > > Jim > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "tom muck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 6:37 PM > Subject: Re: CFMAIL Spooling > > > > There is no setting for the number of emails. The spooler delivers > > 100 mails every 60 seconds. You can change the interval to 15 > > seconds, but no lower. Also, there is a limit of 65,535 emails that > > can be delivered to > the > > spool folder at one time. > > > > tom > > www.basic-ultradev.com > > > > "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > 02b501c17c57$ec7da220$352fa8ce@jim">news:02b501c17c57$ec7da220$352fa8ce@jim... > > > In the CF5 Administrator there's a parameter that controls how often > > > the server checks the mail spool. Is there a fixed number of > > > messages that > CF > > > relays to the mail server in each interval? Doing a mass mailing > > > (40k messages), it seems that mail is moving rather slowly from the > > > CF spool. The mail server being used is _very_ idle and could easily > > > be relaying messages faster. Is this a registry setting, or is > > > there something else limiting how fast CF moves these messages? > > > > > > Jim > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
