Re: SOLVED: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Robertson
FYI I posted an update to my mail trickler tutorial this morning. Includes failure recovery this time, is a tad simpler and mentions methods for scheduling the thing for unattended operation and multiuser use. http://mysecretbase.com/Slowing_Down_CFMail_2004.cfm -- --Matt Robertson-- MSB Design

Re: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Pete Freitag
Burns, John D wrote: > > In other words, I would call > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >   a valid address, > even though there is most likely no such address on the yahoo server. > Is this how you are defining valid? Sorry for the plug but we make a product that can find some of these fake addresses. In addi

RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Burns, John D
There's also a failto attribute to CFMAIL in MX 6.1 that you can use to catch valid but non-real email addresses. John -Original Message- From: Christian Watt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 3:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: pr

SOLVED: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant)
All, I appreciate your answers on this thread.  After doing some testing, it looks like I will be able to use CFMAIL with the query attribute set to cycle through messages.  To avoid driving the mail server admins to kill me, I will set a scheduler to leak these out in small batches. The regu

RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Watt
ers of non-delivered mail are higher than that. Christian -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem? Invalid in format. As long as it's a properly forme

Re: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Andrew Dixon
: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:51:18 -0400 Subject: RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem? To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Invalid in format. As long as it's a properly formed email address, it will work.  You just have to make sure your data is clean. John -Original Message-

RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Watt
anzur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem? select name, email from table My question is I am also getting involve in the same sort of project. How can I create the log file for the email wh

RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Burns, John D
t: RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem? > The big thing you need to look out for is invalid email addresses and > such because that will kill the cfmail loop and thus kill all of the > emails going out. John, Does "invalid e-mail addresses" mean e-mail addresses th

RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant)
> The big thing you need to look out for is invalid > email addresses and such because that will kill > the cfmail loop and thus kill all of the emails > going out. John, Does "invalid e-mail addresses" mean e-mail addresses that simply are not e-mail addresses, or e-mail addresses that are

RE: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Burns, John D
: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem? select name, email from table My question is I am also getting involve in the same sort of project. How can I create the log file for the email which have been sent and the one which are refused/not send. Thanks, >If you are hosted somewhere than your

Re: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Asim Manzur
select name, email from table My question is I am also getting involve in the same sort of project. How can I create the log file for the email which have been sent and the one which are refused/not send. Thanks, >If you are hosted somewhere than your own server, then I would make sure >you

Re: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread joe velez
i would create a schedule task that sends out smaller amounts, maybe 500 at a time, and keeps track of where you are in the list. i dont think CF can handle sending 25K messages at once, it'll probably kill the server. however, i've only had this issue on cf4.5, i havent tested sending bulk messag

Re: CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Ray Champagne
If you are hosted somewhere than your own server, then I would make sure your host doesn't have mails-per-hour-restrictions on your server.  This is the case at our hosting company, and I would assume that it would be smart for other companies to do it too.  I think ours is like 3000 per hour li

CFMAIL and mass mailings: problem?

2004-09-02 Thread Cornillon, Matthieu (Consultant)
Hi.  I want to set up a page to cycle through a list of about 25,000 users and send a personalized e-mail to each of them.  I have no need for fancy subscription, opt-out, or other such management features.  Also, I am only doing this two or three of times.  As such, my plan was to loop over a quer