RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-21 Thread Troy Jones
Clarke, We have a similar application that sends out mass mailings. In the past we have handled this using cfthread. In this simplified example, the code is using cfthread to set a 1 second interval between each email.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-21 Thread Dawn Hoagland
I've successfully used a meta-refresh with a counter keeping track of which batch of emails have been sent (via session or url parameter) for a quick and dirty way to throttle mass emails. Dawn On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Troy Jones wrote: > Clarke, > > > > We have a similar application t

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-21 Thread Douglas Knudsen
I've just used a scheduled task with the long running template override set on it. Had one running over a hour before that was moshing out 20k emails at night without a hiccup, no pauses in processing at all. Took so long because each email required a particular long SQL query to execute, darn c

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-27 Thread Clarke Bishop
hursday, May 21, 2009 5:25 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion Clarke, We have a similar application that sends out mass mailings. In the past we have handled this using cfthread. In this simplified example, the code is using cf

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-28 Thread Charlie Arehart
lf Of Clarke Bishop Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:52 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion Thanks for the ideas Troy, Dawn, and Doug! I decided to try out cfthread as my code was already much like what Tr

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-28 Thread Clarke Bishop
d...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Arehart Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:02 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion Clarke, I wouldn't rely on the server monitor as proof of whether the thread runs. For one

RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion

2009-05-28 Thread Clarke Bishop
Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:22 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Sending large numbers of eMail via ColdFusion Thanks Charlie - Your idea helped me learn more about what is going on. What I'm trying to do inside of my is have a loop that for each eMail address: .