[PHP] Mail() function performance/optimization question

2002-05-21 Thread Wesley Furgiuele
Adding a mail() step to my page increases the page load time from an average of about 2 seconds to nearly 8 seconds. That would be OK if the page completed displaying all the text and then just kind of hung there while the mail() function finished. The page I am using, by the way, is a 5-column/

Re: [PHP] Mail() function performance/optimization question

2002-05-21 Thread Miguel Cruz
What platform and MTA are you using? Your MTA may be trying to handle the message while-u-wait rather than queuing it properly. miguel On Tue, 21 May 2002, Wesley Furgiuele wrote: > Adding a mail() step to my page increases the page load time from an average > of about 2 seconds to nearly 8 se

Re: [PHP] Mail() function performance/optimization question

2002-05-21 Thread Wesley Furgiuele
I am in a shared hosting environment. Here's the info I grab from phpinfo(): SunOS admin 5.7 Generic_106541-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-MP sendmail_path: /usr/lib/sendmail -t SMTP: localhost I don't yet know what the "-t" flag means on the Sendmail path. Also, I included the SMTP value but I a