Re: A sendmail warning
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
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numero = 63685
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texte = I think sendmail only writes to a folder and then another program trickles the emails out. I guess one trick is to make sure the email server can handle the rate at which WebDNA sends the emails. Do you have any experience with writing the emails to the email server directly? I'm not sure I can do that now, but I'd like to know where to begin. Bill On Dec 27, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Peter Ostry wrote: > 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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I think sendmail only writes to a folder and then another program trickles the emails out. I guess one trick is to make sure the email server can handle the rate at which WebDNA sends the emails. Do you have any experience with writing the emails to the email server directly? I'm not sure I can do that now, but I'd like to know where to begin. Bill On Dec 27, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Peter Ostry wrote: > 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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