On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Angus Mann <angusmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm currently using the phpmailer class from phpmailer.worxware.com to > send datatbase -populated emails to clients. > > At the moment I'm runninng PHP on Windows and using the built-in sendmail > equivalent packaged with XAMPP. It uses a remote SMTP that authenticates by > prior logging into a POP account. > > The number of emails sent is very small. Each one is only sent after a user > fills out a form and presses send. > > But there is a noticable lag of about 5 or sometimes 10 seconds after > pressing "send" before the user sees the "Mail sent" page. I presume the > reason for the lag is the time spent logging on and off a remote POP, then > SMTP server, transferring the data etc. > > It would be better if this happened in the background - that is, the user > could get on with doing his next task while the emails sat in a queue in the > backgorund, being lined up and sent without PHP waiting for the process to > finish. > > Can anybody recommend a good way of doing this? Is Mercury Mail going to > help me here? > > HI Angus, +1 I agree on what Paul already said . As in fact you were just to sent out low volume mails. Create a table and queue all pending mails in that then use windows scheduled tasks to perform the actual work if that is not a real-time mail. One thing to note, php on windows does't support specify username and password. But only hostname / IP Address and port only. I can not help much but just few more suggesions. Hope these help Eric, Regards,
