how to slow down cfmail

[olmos]

I have to send out emails to a list which
then I am using procmail and a unix script
to save the email message that was
sent out to a file on the server.

However, the script seems to not be able to keep up
with all the email that gets sent out through CFMAIL,
sometimes the files do not get created.

Is there a way to slow down the sending of email when
using CFMAIL ?

How do I go about this ?

thanks,
olmos

 

[TruthInSatire]

you can run a pointless loop before the mail goes out.

loop
loop
count to 10000
end loop
send mail
end loop

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[olmos]

I tried doing the loop and the CPU resources went up and the browser Crashed. so I did some more research and read that cfx_sleep does not take up alot of
CPU resources . I am currently testing it but am having problems getting it to work.

Thanks ,
olmos.

 

[imstillatwork]

there is a tutorial about this at

http://www.easycfm.com

I am almost positive...

 

[Wullie]

There are a few ways to do it that can work great.

cfx_sleep is what we recommend to our clients because it's the easiest, however you may need to increase the timeout on the script to prevent CF from killing it after a certain time.

Another way that I used in the past was to use a meta refresh tag as follows:

Pull lets say 10 records from the database, then set a meta refresh that passes a variable back to the script to say what the last processed record was. When the meta refresh runs, the script takes the variable and then pulls the next 10 records out. This way you can just adjust the meta refresh time to extend the pause and there is no load put on the server during the pause. Neither the script or browser will time out this way either.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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