I'm working on mass mailing list application and doing my research on the part with the actual delivery of the message. I've been using a Perl script called MojoMail which sends out blasts just fine and boasts that SMTP is the fastest way for delivery than with Sendmail using a module called BulkMail. I always understood that SMTP adds an additional layer around the MTA which really slows things down, however only useful if you plan to blast emails across several SMTP servers for a load balancing purposes.
So that's a 'pro' for using SMTP. The 'con' is that delivery is not quite as fast. Then with PHP's mail(), folks have been saying that because it opens/closes a connection, looping through mail() adds additional overhead and that the best way would be to pipe into the MTA with popen()/pclose() Now I'm curious which method is really better...Piping into the MTA will still open/close the connection and adds the same amount of overhead as mail() do right? What are your thoughts on SMTP? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
