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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/31/05 20:03
On Mon, October 31, 2005 4:10 am, Clive wrote:
> does anyone know whats better/uses less resource etc:
>
> If I run a loop to send a 1000 emails, should I use php's mail
> fucntions
> or send directly to the servers smtp server.
SMTP
PHP's mail() function was never designed for high-volume email.
It fires up a different process of sendmail for EACH email.
This is NOT cheap, nor efficient.
mail() is convenient. It is not efficient.
Use mail() for quickie one-off emails.
Use something else for mass email.
There are classes/packages you can use to make this painless.
http://phpclasses.org has at least one that gets used/recommended a lot.
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