On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:21 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > OK, sorry I have misunderstood you! Yes, of course the php script could be > used to send > emails by SMTP. I know how to do that and it is no big deal but... having > said that I must add > that php is not the best tool for the job. More than with security I am > concerned with the > speed or if you prefer slowness of such operation. We send about 15,5K > messages per day > (as of now) and this number is growing daily. We once had a php script that > generated > emails and sent them via SMTP but it was so slow that it would take long > hours to send those > 15,5K messages. Whereas now php writes emails to HD within a few minutes and > we are > done. The rest is up to MTA. Also, because of that solution we cut by half > the whole SMTP > operation. I mean the transaction from php script to MTA is not needed, we > only need the > MTA to send mail to the world. > > I guess I may be biased against built-in SMTP support in php and perhaps it > is possible to > write a php script that works fast. Our initial experience was so > discouraging that we gave up > on it. I am also considering using a custom java-based application using > SMTP-to-MTA route > which I have seen performing very well. > > Thank you once again for you help! I really appreciate it.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned BSMTP? Just format the file on disk as: HELO hostname MAIL FROM:<from> RCPT TO:<to1> RCPT TO:<to2> RCPT TO:<toX> DATA Headers: Body . And then fire it off using: exim -bS < file -- Chris -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
