Hi Monks: I came across a boring problem. Pls help me to solve it,Any suggestion will be appreciated
The issues process is as following:

My fellow prepared some data at front-end.He insert our customers' info into DB (say :msg_DB)
. The frequency is about 30 items per minute.

Then i need to take the data that he insertd into msg_DB, compose of them with customized HTML template.
Subsequently,I send the data to our customers by SMTP server (At the same time,i mark the corresponding costomers' info in msg_DB to "already sent").

Now the problem is my program is slower than my fellow insert into the msg_DB . As a result,our customers will wait for a long time to recive their mail! My program is a deamon.The Pseudocode is : 

    while (1) {
        $sth = $dbh->prepare(qq{select * from customers where mark=0})
+;
        $sth->execute() or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
        while ($sth->fetch) {
            my $content = construct_the_customers_template();
            send_customer_mail($coutnet);
            mark_the_flag_in_msgdb();  # set the mark field to 1 ,repr
+esent has sent!
        }
    }

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What's about this method? Whether or not i need use multi-thread process to speed my program ? Pls make suggestions to me:)

Regards,
pysome

In reply to how to speed the mail process? by pysome

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