Re: Re: PHP / Bulk Email
| From: | DL Neil | Date: | Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:52:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP / Bulk Email | ||
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> Hi Guys / gals,
>
> I ran a test recently sending emails to a list of clients (1000 or so)
> from a PHP / MySQL powered system.
> When sending via Sendmail this was VERY slow, taking several minutes to
> complete.
> When I switched over to Qmail the whole process takes only 10 or 15
> seconds.
> Seems it's the MTA that causes the biggest overhead in the equation... and
> Qmail is so much nicer than Sendmail!
IIRC it is also an area where the Windows implementation of PHP is superior
(for a pleasant change) on a volume/performance basis (I read somewhere that
this is because a stub SMTP service is included in the interface).
Regards,
=dn