Hello,
Michael Dinowitz wrote:
I have a nicely running iMS server on one box and a primary webserver on another. I've tried using the cfx_imsmail tag to write digest emails over the network and it's not always been successful. I was thinking that if I install iMS Lite on the webserver, I can set it to relay the mail that is generated by the cfx over to the main mail server to be sent. Does this sound like it'll work? I expect it will, but.... primary webserver -> cfx_imsmail -> iMS lite on primary webserver -> iMS pro on mail server -> email out
In some respects not a bad idea, it takes the load of mail posting away from the source server, just like using the relay attributes of the IMS server.
For those who may ask, the reason I want to do this rather than use the CFMAIL tag is that iMS generates a single mail file and a bunch of smaller 'to' files that reference the single mail file. If I'm sending large digests I'd rather not have multiple large files being placed into the CF spool dir or being spooled to memory. iMS also allows me to do better variable inclusion than CFMAIL.
The one mail file + multiple control files is fine on the originating server, it will certainly reduce the load on the originating box, but the relaying server will get a whole bunch of individual emails so it is going to get a big hit if the transfer from iMS lite to Pro is via SMTP. There is also the 5 thread limit of iMS Lite which will restrict the speed but it should be fast talking to a local server.
Which raises a question that I have not thought of before, what is the protocol if you set up a iMS server POST server to use other outbound servers? Is it straight SMTP connecting to the remote's relay server? I am thinking a private protocol where the source server sends to the remote POST server a package of the mail file plus a set of control files and then you could have central server spraying out a set of packages to a set of sending servers very efficiently.
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