On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:07:13AM +0800, Eric Lee wrote: > Hi, all > > I'am doubted about installing a local mail server for just low volume > mailing. > May I ask all yours professional what do you think about it ? > Every place I've ever hosted (all Linux servers) include a local MTA which is up and running. In a large hosting operation, this local MTA probably passes the mail for relay to a central MTA somewhere else in the host's network. There are a variety of reasons for this. Among others, it allows the hosting company to meter email and present a single set of credentials to foreign (offsite) mail servers. And in general, most hosting companies provide you with the location of the local MTA, in case you need it for Perl, Python, cron or other scripts. And PHP's mail() function will, by default, pass email to that local MTA. And moreover, most (all?) Linux MTAs on boxes like this don't block while they make connections. From the OP's description, it sounded like his phpmailer() process was blocking while it made foreign connections. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
