Re: mass mailing
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 20366
interpreted = N
texte = At 10:37 Uhr 10.10.1998, Christer Olsson wrote:>>I've personally used webcat to create more than 34,000 messages at a time>>-- from a single [founditems] loop -- and I have NEVER had a problem>>sending those messages using Emailer to my own SIMS mail server. SIMS>>never choked, crashed, or otherwise failed to deliver those messages when>>Emailer sent them at the default 300 tick setting.>>I would personally do very much to avoid 34,000 files in any MacOS folder.I would even not be happy if a program on my webserver tries to send 34,000mails and then starts to discuss wrong addresses with other servers...But it is possible, not dangerous and probably faster under two circumstances:1 - Format your Mac's harddisk as HFS+2 - Install SIMS on the WebCat-machine but never ever let SIMS itself sendthe mails. Instead just forward them to an other mailserver, preferably inyour own network. The WebCat-mails will leave the webserver within minutes.Thoughts about performance...----------We wrote in 35 minutes:100.000 files (200k each)with 4D from a Mac G3 to a mounted WinNT volume.And we wrote in 30 minutes:100.000 records (400k each)into a WebCat database - also with 4D,to the internal disk of a Performa 6400.The (random) text for this test was created for each file on the fly, sothe speed is comparable to WebCat's [writefile] and I think you can expectappr 1.5 ticks for an email file of 5-600k.If this is true, than writing 34.000 files on a Mac needs about 14 minutesand the machine will be rather locked up for this time.----------Peter__________________________________________Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.comOstry & Partner - Ostry Internet SolutionsAuhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austriafon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21
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At 10:37 Uhr 10.10.1998, Christer Olsson wrote:>>I've personally used webcat to create more than 34,000 messages at a time>>-- from a single
[founditems] loop -- and I have NEVER had a problem>>sending those messages using Emailer to my own SIMS mail server. SIMS>>never choked, crashed, or otherwise failed to deliver those messages when>>Emailer sent them at the default 300 tick setting.>>I would personally do very much to avoid 34,000 files in any MacOS folder.I would even not be happy if a program on my webserver tries to send 34,000mails and then starts to discuss wrong addresses with other servers...But it is possible, not dangerous and probably faster under two circumstances:1 - Format your Mac's harddisk as HFS+2 - Install SIMS on the WebCat-machine but never ever let SIMS itself sendthe mails. Instead just forward them to an other mailserver, preferably inyour own network. The WebCat-mails will leave the webserver within minutes.Thoughts about performance...----------We wrote in 35 minutes:100.000 files (200k each)with 4D from a Mac G3 to a mounted WinNT volume.And we wrote in 30 minutes:100.000 records (400k each)into a WebCat database - also with 4D,to the internal disk of a Performa 6400.The (random) text for this test was created for each file on the fly, sothe speed is comparable to WebCat's
[writefile] and I think you can expectappr 1.5 ticks for an email file of 5-600k.If this is true, than writing 34.000 files on a Mac needs about 14 minutesand the machine will be rather locked up for this time.----------Peter__________________________________________Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.comOstry & Partner - Ostry Internet SolutionsAuhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austriafon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21
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