Posted by Manuel Lemos on 02/01/08 03:28

Hello,

on 01/31/2008 09:01 AM ask said the following:
> Hi
>
> I'm running a website with around 200.000 users. Sending newsletters
> using the naitive php-mail()-function takes quite a while, does anyone
> know if it is mutch faster to use pear::mail with smtp - even if the
> smtp-server is localhost? (each mail is different, thus using BCC or
> alike is not an option)
>
> And does anyone know an easy way to install the mail-dependent
> packages? And I'm not an Linux-shark - so I'm primarily using FTP...

Don' use SMTP. That is the slowest delivery method.

You may want to try this MIME message composing and sending class that
is optimized for bulk deliveries. Take a look at the
test_personalized_bulk_mail.php example script.

http://www.phpclasses.org/mimemessage


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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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