Hi Marc,
Just slap me if I'm being pedantic but I think that should be
'cfx_iMSMail' rather than 'CFMAIL' otherwise I don't think you will get
all the good features of iMS that I'm sure Howie will fill us in on
shortly ;) In your case (as I understand it) iMS will do something
clever like sort all the delivery address and only send one message per
domain...
hth
Brett
B)
Marc Lichtenfeld wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> My company has just purchased IMS. I am currently working on a system that
> will allow users to send mass e-mails (anywhere from 1-20,000 at one time)
> based on data found in our company's database. (NOTE:Just so no one thinks
> too poorly of me, this isn't spam. The e-mail addresses are of people who
> expect this type of e-mail) I would like people's opinions on the send
> method I am using.
>
> The method I am working on for sending the e-mails is to have the message,
> attachment and recipient data saved to files and then write a record in SQL
> Server that contains the other necessary information for sending a message.
> Then, using CFMAIL, I send a message to the IMS server with the SQL Server
> record ID in the subject. The data.cfm template pulls all the data and then
> prepares the e-mails to be sent. I created this method because I was looking
> for a way to process e-mails without the user having to wait for the
> messages to be built.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a better way to process e-mail? Does
> anyone have any criticisms about the method above? Please let me know. My
> two main concerns are that the user doesn't have to wait too long while
> his/her e-mail is being processed and that the e-mail gets delivered as soon
> as possible.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Marc Lichtenfeld
> Web Applications Developer/Technology Lead
> www.bigdough.com
>
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