Re: Re: SMTP vs mail()

Richard Heyes wrote:

If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program.

What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's of emails, say, 100 per SMTP connection?

In my head, I almost always envision an SMTP server being a separate box from the web server. If this is the case, properly configured local sendmail usage is going to be way faster then a remote SMTP connection. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare