>Len,
>
>My concern is that for a mass mailing through JMail,
how massy is that? 100's or 1000's of msgs sent at machine speed?
>my ASP script will time out as the script waits for each individual
>e-mail to be sent through the
>IMail SMTP server. The JMail queing feature is supposed to eliminate these
>timeouts by sending the e-mail directly to the SMTP que directory.
yes, but I'm sure that's Jmail own queuing directory, mananged by
Jmail, and not Imails \spool queue. Maybe Jmail knows how to talk to
Imail's proprietary queueing protocol, but if so, that will be
mentioned in their docs. If not, then Jmail maintains its own
proprietary queue and its SMTP client does its own remote deliveries,
Imail is not involved.
>As I
>understand your response, you are saying that normal IMail queing (sending
>directly to the IMail SMTP server) won't cause any timeouts to my ASP
>script. Is this correct?
The Imail SMPTD receiving speed is pretty darn fast and a question of
how fast Imail can spawn SMTPD processes to accept the mail from
Jmail, and each process writing the its to disk.
Is your .asp script calling Jmail per single message or per-bulk-list?
If the former, I doubt your asp will time out. with the latter, it
sure could happen.
Not knowing what the asp time-out value is, it's impossible to say if
the Jmail call will timeout, whether Jmail delivers to its own queue
or sends to Imail. anyway, isn't the asp timeout value settable?
btw, for Jmail to send to Imail, Jmail will have to have a "send all
mail through a gateway" type of setting, so that Jmail doesn't try to
deliver the mail the RCPT TO: but rather to the the Imail "gateway".
The idea of the Jmail queue is that it can accept mail from your .asp
script and return control to the script quickly without Jmail doing
the actual SMTP delivery during the call, ie, asynchronous SMTP
delivery, rather than synchronous delivery.
Now if a single Jmail call is 10,000 mgs, then maybe asp is going
timeout. Jmail just queues to disk and does the delivery later, but
asp doesn't know about the queueing, but even with queueing, a
10,000-msg call to Jmail is gonna take time, maybe enough for asp to timeout.
One aspect that favors Jmail-to-Imail is that you'll have Imail
logging the sending, vs. what logging, if any, Jmail does. Having
one log file to deal with is simpler, and Imail's logging probably
has more info, and you can set the retry period and attempts in Imail
rather than in Jmail.
>I have had problems with this before when I was using software.com's
>postoffice SMTP software.
Well, that's why you're on Imail now. vbg
Len
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