Hi all, In my evergoing quest to make my CGI scripts cross platform, I've moved the e-mail sending subs over to Net::SMTP (I used to use just sendmail, but the NT people weren't very happy :).

In testing though, I notice that there is a significant difference in performance when sending using Net::SMTP over piping to Sendmail. I assume this is because piping to Sendmail just puts the message in the mail queue, whereas Net::SMTP actually physically sends the mail.

So, my question is, to avoid the overhead:

• should I fork the sending? (up to 3 e-mails get sent per script execution though)
• should I create a local queue and an 'every 5 minutes cron job' to parse the queue and send?
• or has some else found a better way of dealing with cross platform mailers?

Input, as always, humbly welcomed.

cLive ;-)

ps - IANAL (I Am Not A Laccolith)

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