Re: Mail() function performance/optimization question

What platform and MTA are you using? Your MTA may be trying to handle the message while-u-wait rather than queuing it properly. miguel On Tue, 21 May 2002, Wesley Furgiuele wrote: > Adding a mail() step to my page increases the page load time from an average > of about 2 seconds to nearly 8 seconds. That would be OK if the page > completed displaying all the text and then just kind of hung there while the > mail() function finished. The page I am using, by the way, is a > 5-column/3-row table listing some project information, pulled from a MySQL > database. > > Is there anything I can do to make this appear more responsive for the user? > It would be nice if it was actually more responsive, but the illusion will > do just fine. I¹ve tried moving the mail() function around in the order, > but no matter what it causes part of the page to not finish displaying until > mail() has completed.