Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread tom muck
> Actually, the system I described works on jobs of ~200,000 mails. I think > we run ~20,000 mails per hour, if memory serves. Yeah, that would take 20 > hours to process your list of 400,000, but then that's the price we pay for > using CF for bulk mail, eh? :) Sounds interesting. . .I'll lo

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Rick Osborne [Mojo]
Tom Muck said: > That would be good for small jobs, but I need to take jobs > of 400,000 Actually, the system I described works on jobs of ~200,000 mails. I think we run ~20,000 mails per hour, if memory serves. Yeah, that would take 20 hours to process your list of 400,000, but then that's th

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread tom muck
> We had a similar problem and got around it by making our code smart enough > to only spool mail if there is less than 200 files in the spool directory. > Otherwise, it waits a minute and tries again. Sure, you may not be getting > optimal efficiency out of your mail spool, but you're also not c

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Rick Osborne [Mojo]
I said: >> We had a similar problem and got around it by making our code smart enough >> to only spool mail if there is less than 200 files in the spool directory. >> Otherwise, it waits a minute and tries again. Sure, you may not be getting >> optimal efficiency out of your mail spool, but you'

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Bryant Tyson
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Rick Osborne [Mojo] wrote: > Tom muck said: > > > Unfortunately, ColdFusion doesn't give us the option to split the > > spool directory into mulitple directories, so the server will > > automatically write all the spool files out to that directory up to > > 65,535 files befo

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Carlisle, Eric
27;m glad you posted this. I spoke with MM support endlessly about this. Their suggestion -> upgrade to a zero release. No, thank you. EC -Original Message- From: Rick Osborne [Mojo] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFmail Rec

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Rick Osborne [Mojo]
Tom muck said: > Unfortunately, ColdFusion doesn't give us the option to split the > spool directory into mulitple directories, so the server will > automatically write all the spool files out to that directory up to > 65,535 files before crapping out. Then it only sifts through them at > the rat

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread tom muck
Unfortunately, ColdFusion doesn't give us the option to split the spool directory into mulitple directories, so the server will automatically write all the spool files out to that directory up to 65,535 files before crapping out. Then it only sifts through them at the rate of 400 per minute. It w

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Paris Lundis
-Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFmail Recount > > > It could also be that thousands of files in the same directory > > > on a windows box kills the file system in some way. >

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Watts
> > > It could also be that thousands of files in the same directory > > > on a windows box kills the file system in some way. > > > > I don't think this'll "kill" the filesystem, but it will make > > it extremely unresponsive. > > while it won't kill it, it certainly in any higher graphical > so

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Paris Lundis
ginal Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:28 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFmail Recount > It could also be that thousands of files in the same directory > on a windows box kills the file system in some way. I don't think this'll

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Dave Watts
> It could also be that thousands of files in the same directory > on a windows box kills the file system in some way. I don't think this'll "kill" the filesystem, but it will make it extremely unresponsive. I've seen situations with 50k+ files in a single directory, and it just took a long time

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Carlisle, Eric
nt: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:32 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFmail Recount There's a comparison of mail sending technologies (CFMAIL replacements) here: http://www.coolfusion.com/imssecomparison.cfm Regards, Howie - Original Message - From: "Christopher Dawes" <[EM

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Howie Hamlin
nt: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: CFmail Recount > Hello CF-Talk, > >There is a Java Mail Sending CFX tag available from >www.CFDEV.com . I have no experience with the tag, so any input >would also be helpful for my research. > >I have no affilia

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Justin Scott
> > 1) Getting a separate server dedicated to handling SMTP spooling, then use > > CFFILE to write the messages directly to the spooler pickup directory > > instead of using CFMAIL. > > Hmm i'm wondering why you think CFFILE would be any better. If the > corruption comes from writing the email mes

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Cameron Childress
ress elliptIQ Inc. p.770.460.1035.232 f.770.460.0963 -- http://www.neighborware.com America's Leading Community Network Software > -Original Message- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:53 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subjec

CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Christopher Dawes
web-based scanning app. All of these cost $$$ Kind Regards, Christopher Dawes Dawes International Sydney, Australia CT> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:37:42 -0500 (EST) CT> From: Bryant Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CT> Subject: Re: CFmail Recount CT> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Paris Lundis
October 29, 2001 09:09 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CFmail Recount At 13:22 29/10/01 Justin Scott said >Eek! Sorry to hear about your bad luck! I can tell you that if you're >sending out THAT many e-mails, you're better off... > >1) Getting a separate server dedicated to

RE: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Cameron Childress
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Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Gordon Burns
At 13:22 29/10/01 Justin Scott said >Eek! Sorry to hear about your bad luck! I can tell you that if you're >sending out THAT many e-mails, you're better off... > >1) Getting a separate server dedicated to handling SMTP spooling, then use >CFFILE to write the messages directly to the spooler

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Bryant Tyson
t, Lead Developer > Sceiron Internet Services, Inc. > http://www.sceiron.com > > - Original Message - > From: "Bryant Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:43 AM > Subject: CFmail Rec

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-29 Thread Justin Scott
t Services, Inc. http://www.sceiron.com - Original Message - From: "Bryant Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 12:43 AM Subject: CFmail Recount > Thenks for the info Critter. Much apprecia

Re: CFmail Recount

2001-10-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Its possible that the mail being written to the same sector of a hard disk again and again can corrupt it. This is a theory but as I've had at least 2 corrupt disks on the HoF server over the last year or two, it's a possible one. It could also be that thousands of files in the same directory on a

CFmail Recount

2001-10-28 Thread Bryant Tyson
Thenks for the info Critter. Much appreciated. :) Now for a little story about what happened today. I created a newsletter page so that a registered base of 150,000+ subscribers would get it on what would most likely be a weekly basis. On its first run today however, it sent out approximately 20