On Jan 11, 2008 11:36 AM, Richard Heyes <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Bearing in mind I haven't yet done any benchmarks, which do you think
> >> is faster - SMTP with multiple RCPT commands or the PHP mail()
> >> function (with it launching a separate sendmail process for each
> >> mail() function call)?
> >
> > 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.
>
> Thanks.
Obviously, it will also make a huge difference between a local
SMTP and remote SMTP.
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