Re: [PHP] Re: Scripts slowing down?

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

René Leboeuf wrote:

> Per Jessen a écrit :
>> René Leboeuf wrote:
>> 
>>> The user sending emails is "trusted" by sendmail, and the sending
>>> program is located on the sendmail machine.
>>>
>> 
>> No need to use SMTP then.  You should just be calling sendmail to
>> drop
>> the emails into the queue.  And that should not be slowing down.
> 
> According to our tests, using SMTP is twice as fast as calling
> sendmail!

Really ??  That's very unusual as all sendmail does is file your email
into a disk-based queue, so using SMTP is only superfluous overhead. 
Anyway, if it works for you, it's not important.  

>>> Mail is sent via PHPMailer. PHPMailer offers to send mail via PHP's
>>> mail() function, or by calling the sendmail program or using SMTP.
>>> SMTP may use persistent connections or not. All these modes were
>>> tested and they all slow down after a while.
>> 
>> They _all_ slow down after a while?  How many emails are you sending
>> in this way?
> 
> Some of our mailing are +100.000 emails...

There is a possibility that your filesystem is having difficulties
dealing with that many files, escpecially if they are all in one
directory.  Which mailserver and which filesystem are you using? 


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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