Re: SMTP vs mail()

On Sat, January 12, 2008 4:28 am, Richard Heyes wrote: >>>> Assuming you're talking delivery to a local MTA (which will >>>> subsequently do the remote delivery), is speed really important? >>> For the amount of email I'm looking at (1000s, growing), yes. >>> >> >> Hmm, that's not quite what I was thinking of. The amount of emails >> to >> be delivered does not in my opinion affect how fast it needs to >> happen. >> Your local MTA will take a while to deliver those emails anyway, so >> the >> time from script to user is mostly dependent on that, which means >> you're left with reducing the time from script to MTA. If you need >> to >> finish the script fast (in order for some user-intercation to >> continue >> perhaps), I would would just detach the script and carry on. > > Sorry, yes the time of delivery is not so important as the time to > pump > the messages to the MTA. As long as the MTA has them and they get > delivered in a reasonable time frame I'm happy. The application is all > about mail delivery and the script has to return immediately, so I'll > be > launching a separate process to insert the addresses into a minimal > "mail_queue" table in my db, and then a 5 minutely cron script which > will pass them to the MTA. If there's any way to re-configure the MTA to queue the messages for later sending, that would save you a lot of overhead on the PHP end... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?