René Leboeuf wrote: > The user sending emails is "trusted" by sendmail, and the sending > program is located on the sendmail machine. > No need to use SMTP then. You should just be calling sendmail to drop the emails into the queue. And that should not be slowing down. > Mail is sent via PHPMailer. PHPMailer offers to send mail via PHP's > mail() function, or by calling the sendmail program or using SMTP. > SMTP may use persistent connections or not. All these modes were > tested and they all slow down after a while. They _all_ slow down after a while? How many emails are you sending in this way? It's easily tested. Just generate a script with 10000 calls to the mail() function (send to denis+NNNNN@xxxxxxxxxxxx with NNNNN = random number). If that goes through without slowing down, mail() and your sendmail daemon are not to blame. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php