Re: cfmail and smtp load balancing
iMS-SE can load balance to SMTP servers. iMS-SE is also a mail server so you don't even need external mail servers at all. You can download a 60-day fully functional version from our web site. Regards, -- Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager On-Line Data Solutions, Inc. - www.CoolFusion.com - 631-737-4668 x101 inFusion Mail Server (iMS) - The Award-winning, Intelligent Mail Server >>> Find out how iMS Stacks up to the competition: >http://www.coolfusion.com/imssecomparison.cfm - Original Message - From: "Turetsky, Seth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: cfmail and smtp load balancing > What would be the easiest way to get cfmail to use multiple smtp servers, either if >one goes down or for load balancing? Is this even possible, maybe using an MX record with multiple smtp servers or something? > I've read about a custom mail tag that can supposedly do it, ActivMail, is this the >only way to go? Anyone have any experience with it? > > thanks, > seth > > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain sensitive and >private proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. > Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this message is indicative >only, is subject to change and does not constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only and subject to our formal written confirmation. > > > ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
Re: cfmail and smtp load balancing
At 08:28 PM 10/16/02 +0100, Turetsky, Seth wrote: >What would be the easiest way to get cfmail to use multiple smtp servers, >either if one goes down or for load balancing? Is this even possible, >maybe using an MX record with multiple smtp servers or something? For load balancing, the cheap and dirty solution would be to put the names of N smtp servers into a CF variable, then make a random selection between them on each invocation of Not elegant, but it will certainly work. You could write a little utility, too, that would 'test' an smtp server by sending email to a known (preferably REAL local) address and then to a CF_POP to see if it got there. If it didn't, then either the SMTP or the POP server went haywire, and you could strike that server off your list. How to time-stamp it to allow for delayed delivery and run the writer and reader processes anachronously but in coordinated fashion is left as an exercise to the reader :-) On the other hand, you could go out looking for an SMTP server that provides load balancing (I'd start with the folks who make Listserv) of multiple servers under the aegis of a single name, and let the SMTP server software handle it. :-) Greg ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
Re: cfmail and smtp load balancing
what I do with our mail issue in CF is the following: 1. All mail gets plugged to a network attached storage appliance 2. All SMTP servers access this shared space and utilize their own locking system so they don't step on each other CFADVANCEDMAIL is worth checking out... it has a direct to file system specification compliance writing mechanism so it can dump directly to your spool... If your spool area is shared disk, then having multiple SMTP suckers that all smell and work the same would work well.. and if one goes away it won't matter... Now if you want redundancy for IMAP/POP3 pickup thats a whole different discussion :) Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com 412-292-3135 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -Original Message- From: "Turetsky, Seth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:28:27 +0100 Subject: cfmail and smtp load balancing > What would be the easiest way to get cfmail to use multiple smtp > servers, either if one goes down or for load balancing? Is this even > possible, maybe using an MX record with multiple smtp servers or > something? > I've read about a custom mail tag that can supposedly do it, > ActivMail, is this the only way to go? Anyone have any experience > with it? > > thanks, > seth > > This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain > sensitive and private proprietary or legally privileged information. > No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any > mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient, please > immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy > any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly > or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of > this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE > GROUP and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or > CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST > BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through > its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the > individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the > sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such > entity. > Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this > message is indicative only, is subject to change and does not > constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted. Any reference to the > terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only > and subject to our formal written confirmation. > > > ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
cfmail and smtp load balancing
What would be the easiest way to get cfmail to use multiple smtp servers, either if one goes down or for load balancing? Is this even possible, maybe using an MX record with multiple smtp servers or something? I've read about a custom mail tag that can supposedly do it, ActivMail, is this the only way to go? Anyone have any experience with it? thanks, seth This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain sensitive and private proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this message is indicative only, is subject to change and does not constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only and subject to our formal written confirmation. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
