Question
CF6/7, mail spooling and you.
I'd like to start this thread for any user to post issues
and/or solutions that they have come across dealing with ColdFusion
and it's mail spool.
I'll start by saying that the spool seams to work fine for any amount of mail under 10k. As soon as this "threshold" is reached things apparently go downhill from there. I've seen so many posts and pages over the net that speak of the CF mail spooler simply dieing and the only solution is to restart the CF service but.... what kind of SOLUTION is that? It's not a solution, that's what it is. I've played with all sorts of settings on both my mail server and my CF server and I can honestly say it's been a roller coaster of success and failure. I'm not sure about all the other users having issues with the mail spool but I can say that my mail logs are clean as can be. I will admit they are not perfect and show the occasional timeout every few weeks but connection to the mail server seems far from the root of the problem...
Anyway, enough of my ramblings. I'll begin with the current issue at hand and ask if anyone else has seen/know of this issue and ask that if you have your own mail spool issue to please post your question here as well.
Issue: Mail in the spool will not deliver faster than one message every 1 - 1.5 seconds. It does not matter if there are 15 or 15,000 messages in the spool, they are kicked out at that consistant speed. The CF Admin is set to a 1 second spool interval at the moment however changing this to any number between 1 and 15 just means that 1 message is sent every X seconds. *Note that this is Standard Edition
I'll start by saying that the spool seams to work fine for any amount of mail under 10k. As soon as this "threshold" is reached things apparently go downhill from there. I've seen so many posts and pages over the net that speak of the CF mail spooler simply dieing and the only solution is to restart the CF service but.... what kind of SOLUTION is that? It's not a solution, that's what it is. I've played with all sorts of settings on both my mail server and my CF server and I can honestly say it's been a roller coaster of success and failure. I'm not sure about all the other users having issues with the mail spool but I can say that my mail logs are clean as can be. I will admit they are not perfect and show the occasional timeout every few weeks but connection to the mail server seems far from the root of the problem...
Anyway, enough of my ramblings. I'll begin with the current issue at hand and ask if anyone else has seen/know of this issue and ask that if you have your own mail spool issue to please post your question here as well.
Issue: Mail in the spool will not deliver faster than one message every 1 - 1.5 seconds. It does not matter if there are 15 or 15,000 messages in the spool, they are kicked out at that consistant speed. The CF Admin is set to a 1 second spool interval at the moment however changing this to any number between 1 and 15 just means that 1 message is sent every X seconds. *Note that this is Standard Edition
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