On Jan 11, 2008 11:33 AM, Stut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No brainer, SMTP will almost certainly be faster. My mailing list system > (written in PHP obviously) can dump 600k customised emails to the local > SMTP server in a couple of hours. Doing the same with the mail command > took over 24 hours. How much slower will depend a lot on how you have > configured sendmail, but it's never going to be faster than a socket > connection to the local SMTP server.
Also don't forget the part where you shouldn't disconnect and reconnect between mails sent. I used to use htmlMimeMail, but now I use Zend_Mail as it has a better API and is also faster in regards to the quoted printable encoding. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
