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 34,000 mails 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 send the mails. Instead just forward them to an other mailserver, preferably in your 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, so the speed is comparable to WebCat's [writefile] and I think you can expect appr 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 minutes and the machine will be rather locked up for this time. ----------Peter__________________________________________ Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria fon ++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 34,000 mails 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 send the mails. Instead just forward them to an other mailserver, preferably in your 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, so the speed is comparable to WebCat's
[writefile] and I think you can expect appr 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 minutes and the machine will be rather locked up for this time. ----------Peter__________________________________________ Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21
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