[thelist] Cold Fusion, Q-Mail, Spool Files

[gabriel rivera]

>I'm wanting to by-pass cold fusion to send multiple e-mails. Does anyone
>have experience in writing mail directly to the spool of an SMTP agent
>known as qmail?

Why not send directly to the smtp daemon and let it deal with delivery?

You don't want to muck about with parsing and writing to mail spools, unless
I misunderstand your intentions.

I'm sure that mass mailing code is available for cf, but since you said you
want to bypass it, Perl is your friend.

You'll need some way to pass mailing list info to your mailing script, such
as a database.  Also, you'll need docs for whatever <cf tag calls external
programs.

If your background is exclusively coldfusion, then perl will have a high
learning curve.  (as will most any language).

That said, its good to note that you don't always need to have a robust
understanding of perl to get some decent copy and paste code working for
you.

Free perl distro for win32

http://activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/

One of countless mailing libraries

http://search.cpan.org/author/JIMT/Mail-Bulkmail-3.04/


-gabriel