Autor: Chris Meadors Data: A: exim-users Assumpte: Re: [exim] can mail be sent by dropping mail files into exim queue
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 17:21 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> OK, sorry I have misunderstood you! Yes, of course the php script could be used to send
> emails by SMTP. I know how to do that and it is no big deal but... having said that I must add
> that php is not the best tool for the job. More than with security I am concerned with the
> speed or if you prefer slowness of such operation. We send about 15,5K messages per day
> (as of now) and this number is growing daily. We once had a php script that generated
> emails and sent them via SMTP but it was so slow that it would take long hours to send those
> 15,5K messages. Whereas now php writes emails to HD within a few minutes and we are
> done. The rest is up to MTA. Also, because of that solution we cut by half the whole SMTP
> operation. I mean the transaction from php script to MTA is not needed, we only need the
> MTA to send mail to the world.
>
> I guess I may be biased against built-in SMTP support in php and perhaps it is possible to
> write a php script that works fast. Our initial experience was so discouraging that we gave up
> on it. I am also considering using a custom java-based application using SMTP-to-MTA route
> which I have seen performing very well.
>
> Thank you once again for you help! I really appreciate it.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned BSMTP? Just format the file on disk as:
HELO hostname
MAIL FROM:<from>
RCPT TO:<to1>
RCPT TO:<to2>
RCPT TO:<toX>
DATA
Headers:
