Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-15 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, January 15, 2008 4:54 am, Stut wrote: Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, on 01/14/2008 04:15 PM Richard Lynch said the following: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-15 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/15/2008 08:54 AM Stut said the following: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's of emails,

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-15 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/15/2008 01:41 PM Richard Lynch said the following: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-14 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, January 11, 2008 2:18 pm, Manuel Lemos wrote: on 01/11/2008 06:03 PM Richard Heyes said the following: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-14 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/14/2008 04:15 PM Richard Lynch said the following: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's of

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-12 Thread Per Jessen
Manuel Lemos wrote: Still if you want the fastest delivery in the world, you can skip queueing and talk directly to the final SMTP server. That is what the direct_delivery mode of this SMTP class does. I use it for deliverying really urgent messages. It uses PHP only, there is no sendmail or

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-12 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/12/2008 07:28 AM Per Jessen said the following: Still if you want the fastest delivery in the world, you can skip queueing and talk directly to the final SMTP server. That is what the direct_delivery mode of this SMTP class does. I use it for deliverying really urgent messages.

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Heyes
If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's of emails, say, 100 per SMTP connection? -- Richard Heyes

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/11/2008 06:03 PM Richard Heyes said the following: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Jim Lucas
Richard Heyes wrote: If you have your sendmail equivalent program properly configured, no SMTP connection is used when queueing messages using the sendmail program. What about when you take into consideration this program could be sending 1000's of emails, say, 100 per SMTP connection?

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Per Jessen
Manuel Lemos wrote: On Linux/Unix, mail() uses sendmail or equivalent programs. These programs use pipes to communicate, which are much faster than using SMTP TCP sockets. Uh, sendmail on unix typically just drops the email file into a directory for the mailer daemon to pick up from. /Per

[PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/11/2008 02:29 PM Richard Heyes said the following: Hi, Bearing in mind I haven't yet done any benchmarks, which do you think is faster - SMTP with multiple RCPT commands or the PHP mail() function (with it launching a separate sendmail process for each mail() function call)?

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, January 11, 2008 1:51 pm, Manuel Lemos wrote: Hello, on 01/11/2008 02:29 PM Richard Heyes said the following: Hi, Bearing in mind I haven't yet done any benchmarks, which do you think is faster - SMTP with multiple RCPT commands or the PHP mail() function (with it launching a

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, on 01/11/2008 08:26 PM Richard Lynch said the following: Bearing in mind I haven't yet done any benchmarks, which do you think is faster - SMTP with multiple RCPT commands or the PHP mail() function (with it launching a separate sendmail process for each mail() function call)? It

Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()

2008-01-11 Thread Chris
And I'd be interested to hear of an actual side-by-side comparison on comparable hardware where sendmail using pipes beats SMTP on a LAN. I don't have that but a comparison between the main open-source mta's (all out of the box, no optimizations for any of them) revealed sendmail sucks the