You might want to consider a few things:
Queueing your email in a database table and sending it out in a
separate process.
or
Finding a mail daemon that will queue quickly for you and not send
directly on adding to the queue.
I use the first of the two options and it works quite well for us.
Gavin
On 9/2/07, shiplu <shiplu.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am maintaining a social network site.
> there each user can send other mail.
> these mails are not real mail rather message entry to database.
> I added a new feature so that every message is sent to me (admin/webmaster)
> via email (real e-mail).
> I used mail function.
> THis is a simple mail function. all it does sends mail with the message as
> the mail body to my address.
> Thats it. no extra complexity.
> But the problem is I got the mail very late. after 4-6 hours. That is huge
> time difference.
> I shouldn't take more than 3-5 mins.
> Do you know the reason?
> my mail code is here,
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> $headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
> list($myname,$mydomain)=preg_split("/\@/",$myemail,2);
> $headers .= "From: $myname <$myemail>\r\n";
> mail("me@xxxxxxxxxx", "message from XXX to YYY", $message_content,
> $headers);
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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>
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