Instead of sending mail directly from my web app, I insert the message into a table in my database, and then use a cron job to pick up the new messages and to send them. This makes your web app more responsive.

I have no experience of Mail::Sendmail, but it looks fairly flimsy in comparison with MIME::Lite, which is my mail module of choice and has served me well.

You don't mention what platform you're running this on, but if it is a *nix box, then you should have sendmail available to you. MIME::Lite will use sendmail to inject the mail directly into your local SMTP queue, which is fast. If not, then MIME::Lite will use Net::SMTP to send to a remote SMTP server. This will make your process slower, but if it is not happening in your web app, that's probably OK.

Clint

In reply to Re: Fast dispatch of e-mails by clinton
in thread Fast dispatch of e-mails by szabgab

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