Start sendmail with appropriate params to queue messages and not send them immediately. That way, sendmail will immediately accept the message and your script will be freed. sendmail will process the message shortly without delaying you. -Stathis On Thursday 18 November 2004 21:34, Scott Fletcher wrote: > I did have that similar problem when it took about a minute or two on unix > machine. It turn out to be a DNS issue, so the successful workaround I > made was to use the host file instead in /etc/hosts by added the machine > name to it since that what the sendmail use. Maybe this is in your case? > > --snip-- > <ip address> <machine name> <machine name dot domain name dot > com/org/net> > --snip-- > > Scott > > "Paul Danko" <pdanko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:016101c4cd9e$62077800$f506a8c0@xxxxxxxx > > > I am building an application that uses the mail() command. I am running > > on RedHat v9 with Apache v2 and PHP v4.3.8. The problem is, when I run > > the mail() function, the submitting page is very slow (1-2 seconds), I > > assume because it is waiting for the message to be queued up by > > SendMail. Is there a way to fire off the mail command as a thread, > > similar to the way to issues a command via the command prompt followed > > by & to run it as a thread. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Paul > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > Paul Danko > > pdanko@xxxxxxxxxxx > > 443.677.7279 Mobile > > 301.883.8881 x 127 Office > > ------------------------------------------------ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
