St?phane MERLE:
> > Postfix installs its own sendmail command, to avoid breaking PHP
> > etc. This was a smarter move than having to re-educate people.
>
> yes, I must agree on that ! (that's just confusing because the
> /usr/sbin/sendmail is not a script but a binary ... so I though that was
> the mta)
>
> so to make sure :
>
> 1 - for the 10s pause between emails, it's due to the sendmail command ?
>
> # dpkg -S sendmail | grep bin
> postfix: /usr/sbin/sendmail
Instead of asking if /usr/sbin/sendmail causes a delay, why don't
jou just SEND EMAIL WITHOUT PHP and see if that causes a delay. If
there is no such delay then /usr/sbin/sendmail is not the problem.
As for the other questions, why would you throw away email that
was intended to be delivered?
Wietse