Hi Jason,
Is this an 800 email batch or 800-odd emails going over the course of a day?
I have two things to offer. I just completed a bulk email app which was a
one-off to send out invitations and reminders to complete an online
questionnaire. I sent out 1500 emails in one hit using CDONTS. It was called
within an ASP so it could be triggered by a staff member. Last time I did
this I let them go in batches of 200 - I was worried about choking the
server - but there didn't seem to be a problem and the 1500 went without any
problems on my dev server (PIII 550) so I decided to just do it. For this
job a template was read from the filesystem, copied into another local
variable (to avoid another 1499 filesys reads), populated with static data
for each recipient and then dispatched with To: and a Bcc: addressees.
Testing worked well with both plain text and HTML formats (different
templates).
I have also used COM and WSH to create a custom app to schedule the release
of queued emails. Not used as a bulk mailer, but if you want to schedule
your email to go without intervention then this is one approach. CDONTS can
be accessed in exactly the same way from a WSH script, I just put it in a
COM component (that is called from the script) cause it was just so darn
handy I thought I might get around to reusing it. The component is
registered on the (web) server, and the WSH script is also scheduled on this
machine.
My advice is just to give it a try, and try to take into account any other
load on the server that may make this a problem.
BTW, I used CDONTS, but I believe we should all be using CDOSYS now.
Alan
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"jason" <ja***@catamaranco.com> wrote in message
news:uY**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Ok - wait - I had actually intended to use task scheduler to trigger the
asp page with CDO...but, are you saying that I should be using WSH off my
local smtp (iis)(single threaded) to do the bulk mail rather than utilize the
mail server sitting with my web host or their platform.....and, trigger this
via task scheduler?
I appreciate some help in improving my odds for success.....
Thanks
jason
ps: I gather you use your own list server to accomplish the above? If so,
are you having it hosted or are you using a 3rd party product to do this
for you.....on your local server machine.....
"Aaron Bertrand - MVP" <aa***@TRASHaspfaq.com> wrote in message
news:#w**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... I take it both have SendQueue options - Aaron, could I ask you if you
successfully used the COMs in an 800 send out per day - what were the
results?
It works, but it's not the tool for the job. At least, use VBS and the
task scheduler, not an ASP page.
A