Re: SMTP vs mail()
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:22:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SMTP vs mail() | ||
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Eric Butera schreef:
On Jan 11, 2008 11:33 AM, Stut <stuttle@gmail.com> wrote:indeed but I have experienced situations where the SMTP server refuses more than X number of messages on any one connection ... which meant having to get the script to disconnect/reconnect every 200 (iirc) odd emails sent.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.