I am really not a big fan of putting smtp code into PHP on UNIX. The
whole philosophy of UNIX is to have a collection of small specialized
tools that work together instead of one mammoth tool. Which UNIX system
does not have the ability to send mail? We really should not be
re-inventing every
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
I am really not a big fan of putting smtp code into PHP on UNIX. The
whole philosophy of UNIX is to have a collection of small specialized
tools that work together instead of one mammoth tool. Which UNIX system
Same here. I didn't change anything for Windows (except moving the
file), since I haven't got a Windows dev system. The implementation
could certainly be improved, that would be much easier for me to do
by also using it for UNIX. While I do agree to some extent with
Rasmus, the changes are
You completely lose the most important feature. A non-blocking mail()
call which queues the message. Having a web app wait on an smtp delivery
is crap. Mail should be delivered out of band.
non-blocking? mail() uses popen() and has to wait for the
execution of /usr/lib/sendmail to
Don't you think that on some systems (probably with high loads) it might be
much more efficient to use SMTP than spanning mail via fork()/exec()?
Only in the case of a local smtpd. But yes, in that scenario I agree.
-Rasmus
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
Don't you think that on some systems (probably with high loads) it might be
much more efficient to use SMTP than spanning mail via fork()/exec()?
Only in the case of a local smtpd. But yes, in that scenario I agree.
I'm not at all on top of
