Re: A sendmail warning
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 63680
interpreted = N
texte = On 27.12.2005, at 07:04, William DeVaul wrote: > Does anyone have some thoughts on how to better use WebDNA for > customized mass emailings? I can't talk about version 6 because it is new here. But with version 3.x it was rather impossible to send mass emails, at least not with sendmail under Linux. WebCatalog was too fast. I guess that is still true if WebDNA 6 doesn't have a pause or wait command. The delivery of one email to a mailserver takes usually about one second. That means (for example) you need 4 hours for 15,000 mails. But WebDNA could be ready in 5 minutes which may overstrain the mailserver or lead to disk overflow like in your case. If you manage to slow down WebDNA you would be ok. Apart from the fact that a webserver which delivers websites should not be used for mass mails... Two other possibilities: You can write the files to a disk with enough space and have a cron job running which calls a WebDNA script every second to send one mail, controlled by a database. That won't be much slower than trying to send all mails at once. If you are allowed to do it, you can write complete mail files directly to the "submit" folder of your mailserver which is preferably on another machine. ___ Peter Ostry ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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On 27.12.2005, at 07:04, William DeVaul wrote: > Does anyone have some thoughts on how to better use WebDNA for > customized mass emailings? I can't talk about version 6 because it is new here. But with version 3.x it was rather impossible to send mass emails, at least not with sendmail under Linux. WebCatalog was too fast. I guess that is still true if WebDNA 6 doesn't have a pause or wait command. The delivery of one email to a mailserver takes usually about one second. That means (for example) you need 4 hours for 15,000 mails. But WebDNA could be ready in 5 minutes which may overstrain the mailserver or lead to disk overflow like in your case. If you manage to slow down WebDNA you would be ok. Apart from the fact that a webserver which delivers websites should not be used for mass mails... Two other possibilities: You can write the files to a disk with enough space and have a cron job running which calls a WebDNA script every second to send one mail, controlled by a database. That won't be much slower than trying to send all mails at once. If you are allowed to do it, you can write complete mail files directly to the "submit" folder of your mailserver which is preferably on another machine. ___ Peter Ostry ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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