note 23448 added to ref.mail

From: Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:49:03 +0000
Subject: note 23448 added to ref.mail
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On July 12, "topxse" wrote: > Please note that the mail() function is pretty slow, so if you are planning > to develop a script which has to be able to send a few thousand emails or > more, you will need to use set_time_limit() in order to make sure the > script doesn't time out. > Also, you might want to create your own mailing function, which could save > in time. I am having this very problem: sending out just one message takes over 80 seconds. (I timed it with microtime().) How do you create your own mailing function? Is there a website I can go to to find out about this? Speed is very important in this script. I'd appreciate any help you can give me! Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Kazez http://ben.kazez.com/ -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+23448 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+23448 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+23448

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