Re: SMTP vs mail()
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:10:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SMTP vs mail() | ||
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On Jan 11, 2008 11:33 AM, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote:
> No brainer, SMTP will almost certainly be faster. My mailing list system
> (written in PHP obviously) can dump 600k customised emails to the local
> SMTP server in a couple of hours. Doing the same with the mail command
> took over 24 hours. How much slower will depend a lot on how you have
> configured sendmail, but it's never going to be faster than a socket
> connection to the local SMTP server.
Also don't forget the part where you shouldn't disconnect and
reconnect between mails sent.
I used to use htmlMimeMail, but now I use Zend_Mail as it has a better
API and is also faster in regards to the quoted printable encoding.