i'm basically just writing a simple mailing list manager in php.
ultimately i want to be able to send emails to any number of recipients
in my database. i could easily do this from php by looping through my
recipients and using the mail() function. but i know that on windows
(while using CDONTS through asp) this is not a good practice as mails
can get lost because of the load created. so i assumed the same was true
with sendmail and php. what *is* recommended with windows is to write
out simple emails and dump them into the Exchange outgoing queue so that
Exchange can handle them at it's leisure (at least this was the
suggestion last time i looked into it).
hopefully this is enough explanation, otherwise i can provide more (although i can't really think of anyway to explain it further at the moment).
You've just reiterated the point everyone has already made... dump it to your MTA and allow it to handle the spooling and delivery. However, you'll definitely want to consider PIPELINING (sending multiple emails through a single SMTP connection). This will decrease the number of sendmail threads and increase your performance.
-- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
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