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 consi

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

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

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

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

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 mess

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

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 m

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

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

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 http://www

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

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? In

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. /Pe

[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 > cal