CFLOOP and CFMAIL

[bweno]

Is there anyway to have cfloop delay 5 seconds inbetween each time it loops. I
am trying to send out an large email but my web host says I have to delay my
emails from being sent all at once. They have to be time delayed and 5 seconds
is their requirement.

Thanks...

[TurboMini]

I would have the page reload (after each mail is sent) using the settimeout function in javascript.

[MattRobertson]

If you do your looping server side you are either going to tie up one of CF's
available request threads for a Lonnng time, or you'll wind up with the request
timing out. You can fix the latter but you can't fix the former.

I wrote a mail throttler ages ago that does the job in a series of short
requests. Its a proven technique when it comes to slowing down mail delivery
to allow mailings to go out despite the frequency filters in place at many
ISP's. You can easily vary the thing to do 1 email every 5 seconds but unless
that specific rate is what you require you don't need to go anywhere near that
slow to solve the frequency filter problem, or even to dribble out mail on a
busy shared server.

[url]http://mysecretbase.com/Slowing_Down_CFMAIL.cfm[/url]

--Matt--
MSB Web Systems... [url]http://mysecretbase.com[/url]
Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes.
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[bweno]

That is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT... Thanks a million...