Before I begin my trek down this path I want to make I've chosen it correctly. Your feed back is greatly appreciated.

On our web site (http://www.calchoice.com) members have an option to receive quotes - The process to calculate the quote is a resource intensive process which can sometimes take up to (if not more than) a minute to get a result.

In our design and architecture meeting we decide to entertain the possibility of using MSMQ for this.

Honestly, other than reading articles and trying a few samples myself I've never really had a huge project that relied on this technology.

Basically, the user submits information for a quote thru a web page (asp.net). During the post back instead of going thru the process of calculating quote we instead send back a message telling them to check their email for the quote (check is in the mail syndrome). During this time we're hoping that MSMQ will handle the heavy lifting and puke out an email with the necessary information (a quote, essentially).

Is this the way MSMQ is suppose or are we looking at this technology the wrong way? Additionally, are there any good .NET resource for working with this type of scenario?

TIA!