Topic: Adding email support to a java web application

[ellsone]

Hello,

I need a kick in the right direction. I already use SME server as an application email server. Basically a java application sends emails via SMTP using the SME server.

We have a java web apllication that needs to send out verification emails, forgotten passwords etc etc. This is all okay using SMTP and the SME server. Since these emails are infrequent the java web application simply makes a new SMTP connection per email sent and then closes the connection.

However the application now has to respond to certain events and inform customers by email and SMS. We need to send out 1000's of emails per minute in response to these events. Can we still use SME server to do this? Is there another piece of open source software better suited for the job?

I have done a far bit of googling around and have not found anything to give me a good overview. For example if we are sending out 1000's of emails per minute how do go about ensuring the emails don't get identified as spam or junk?

Any useful links or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

many thanks.

[dmay]

For example if we are sending out 1000's of emails per minute how do go about ensuring the emails don't get identified as spam or junk?

Do you really want to send out 1000's of emails per minute using SME? That's a heck of a load if you have clamav enabled.

Darrell

[ellsone]

So SME is not suitable for this?

We have an application that requires to send out 1000's of emails as quickly as possible alerting our customers of particular problems when they occur. I was hoping someone would point me in the right direction on what software would be suitable for this?

For example we have 10,000 registered customers. A train is cancelled. We need to alert say a 1000 customers as quickly as possible by Email.

We would prefer to use our own dedicated Email server and use SMTP from the application to send the Email.

What software does forums like this one use to send out email?