Important notes about emailing using Active Server Pages.


Mass mailing using ASP is not an efficient way to mass email.
It is rather crude as it can be very resource intensive on the server and also takes a while to run.

It does however work...

But there may be limitations based on a lot of things.

Your email servers configuration.
Your servers configuration.
The amount of users you are emailing.
The Server.Timeout on the ASP page.


What I am saying is...This feature was requested and I do not guarantee how well it will work for you.




In  my testing... here are some results I came back with.


Sitting at home running the Password program on my Laptop computer.
A P3 600 with 196 meg of ram.

The email server I'm using is at work and I am connected to the net using a 56k Data line.


I expirimented by sending emails to 100 users in my database.

Using SASMTPMail it took 2:00 minutes
Using Jmail it took 1:30 minutes
Using CDONTS it took 20 seconds





Now.. I also tried this on my webserver at work...
The password system running from there.
The email server being there as well.


Basically the times were more than cut in half.


So... in theory you should be able to send emails to 1000's of users..

Maybe...

All depends on the power behind your web site and email server as well as a lot of other factors...

Such is life...


Good Luck...

Using these ASP email components this is the best I can tell you...



Christopher Williams
www.PowerASP.com