Kevin Spencer
6/10/2004 2:46:00 PM
Hi Jonah,
You could certainly use Web Services, but you only need the service on one
end. The client that consumes the service is at the other end. It calls a
WebMethod on the Web Service. If the service is on the Windows machine, the
Method can return the data needed by the Unix machine. However, you should
be aware that by having the computers use a Web Service to send all the
emails to the Unix machine, and having that machine email them all at once,
you may actually be causing a total sum of MORE processing and memory usage
across both computers than the simpler method you're already using. You're
adding an extra SOAP layer to the process. On the other hand, if one or the
other of the machines is under heavy load, you may be able to balance it out
somewhat by using more of the other machine's resources.
Good question!
--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
.Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.
"Jonah Olsson" <jonah@IHATESPAM.com> wrote in message
news:eCXzPTtTEHA.2324@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Dear All,
>
> I'm currently developing a solution where large amounts of personalised
> emails are being created (and no, this is not spam...) on the ASP.NET
> platform and being delivered by a Debian Linux server running Qmail and
> mySQL. Currently the .NET application just connects to the SMTP-port on
the
> Linux server and sends each mail one by one. This creates an awful lot of
> traffic and isn't really a good way of handling >100.000 emails/month.
>
> I would like a solution where all this data first being prepared on the
.NET
> platform, and then transferred to the Linux platform to be handled and
sent.
> But how should I solve this both secure/reliable and efficient?
>
> So basically I have two questions;
>
> Should I prepare a large XML dataset and ship this to the Linux server to
be
> handled locally (Perl + mySQL + Qmail). This would need some kind of
status
> check since if the Linux server would go down, some mail might already
have
> been sent.
>
> Can I use Web Services here? If so, I suppose I should create two Web
> Services. One on the Linux platform to receive the dataset with
personalised
> emails, and one on the .NET platform to receive status and results.
>
> Am I missing something out here? Qmail is currently the most reliable part
> here I think, since it basically never looses mail even if the network or
> server goes down. But the data sent to Qmail might be lost due to network
> trouble etc. This is an important part of the problem.
>
> Someone with similar experience?
> Thanks for any kind of help/hints!
>
> Best regards
> Jonah Olsson
> Generation Software
>
>
>