Dear Monks, I have an email script that runs on my local computer. Every day, we use this script to send out customized emails to our clients. On average, the script sends out about 25 - 75 emails at a clip. Each email gets attached to it a unique Microsoft Word document. The script uses Net::SMTP and Mime::Lite for modules. Before our web server host switched to smtp authentication, the email program would finish sending out all the emails within a few minutes. When our web hosting company switched to smtp authentication, the program has slowed considerably because every email that is sent, the server wants to check for authentication. My question is is there a way for the perl program to just check for authentication on the first email being sent from the group, while the others are sent without authentication?

In reply to Speeding Up SMTP Authentication by njweatherman

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