Re: SMTP, mail() and piping directly into Sendmail, which is better?

Ignore this post, I got my answers from the archives :) "Jonathan Chum" <jchum@jps.net> wrote in message news:20030123034839.16754.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I'm working on mass mailing list application and doing my research on the > part with the actual delivery of the message. I've been using a Perl script > called MojoMail which sends out blasts just fine and boasts that SMTP is the > fastest way for delivery than with Sendmail using a module called BulkMail. > I always understood that SMTP adds an additional layer around the MTA which > really slows things down, however only useful if you plan to blast emails > across several SMTP servers for a load balancing purposes. > > So that's a 'pro' for using SMTP. The 'con' is that delivery is not > quite as > fast. > > Then with PHP's mail(), folks have been saying that because it opens/closes > a connection, looping through mail() adds additional overhead and that the > best way would be to pipe into the MTA with popen()/pclose() > > Now I'm curious which method is really better...Piping into the MTA will > still open/close the connection and adds the same amount of overhead as > mail() do right? What are your thoughts on SMTP? > >