Re: [PHP] Sending e-mail via socket

Andre Polykanine wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I've just subscribed to the list, and I already have a question.
> what I need to do is to send mail using sockets. Actually, the
> built-in Mail() function is great and I wouldn't have to search for
> something else if I didn't need more than one message to be sent at a
> time. Say, I have ten or a hundred of users who want to receive a
> notification about new blog entries. If I use the mail() function in
> the loop, it will be performed too slow since it constantly opens and
> closes the door, I mean, the SMTP connection.

Use sendmail to drop the emails straight into your MTA queue.

/Per

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