Posted by Marcus Bointon on 10/31/05 12:51

On 31 Oct 2005, at 10:34, Richard Heyes wrote:

> Depends on your setup. If you're on Linux/Unix you could use the
> mail() function along with the "-odq" option to Sendmail/Postfix/
> Exim etc (fifth argument to the mail() function) which will dump
> all the mails into the MTAs queue. After this, the MTA will handle
> delivery. This is probably the quickest for this platform.

I agree. Sending directly is usually reserved for Windows machines
with no local MTA and is usually way slower and doesn't handle
queuing. I'd advise anyone to use PHPMailer for mail anyway as it
makes it much more reliable to deal with all the other stuff like
MIME encoding, plus it has support for all these sending methods
without having to change much code. I use it with qmail.

Marcus
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