in reply to Sending many emails but fast?

Just how slow is it as is? Is your goal to have the user of your application notified when all of the mail is delivered by the SMTP server, or just queued in the SMTP server?

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Re^2: Sending many emails but fast?
by techcode (Hermit) on Aug 29, 2005 at 22:13 UTC
    I don't really know how slow/fast it is - as I still don't have large list (just few emails, mostly mine and few friends) that I use for testing.

    Anyway, in the control panel of application, when you create an email and place it in outbox, you can select the date & time when to send that particular email. I did it that way, so someone could prepare say several issues of newsletter, before they are to be sent. Obviously cron is set to run every hour or so, a script that checks if there are some emails in outbox that need to be sent. And there is no direct action performed by user ...

    So to answer your question - no my goal is not to notify when all emails are delivered (it's an option - it sends email when it finishes if you want it of course).

    And by my logic - if my application forwarded it to the SMTP server then my part of job is done - so it can send the notification.

    If this speed-up can only be done by using qmail/sendmail type applications and not SMTP server directly - then it's fine with me. In my features I will write the opposite. Kind of : "If you use Open Source OS you get a special bonus - faster sending of emails." :)