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is it true that smtp is ineffective with bulk mail?
if thats the case: is the best alternative to use sendmail directly on a server?
the point of all of this is this:
i need to write a script which sends emails to a list of recipients defined in a html textbox. the emails would have images from the webpage attached to them.
the reason is that im a photographer with limited bandwidth. so i only want to upload pictures once (to the webpage). then email them from there.
any views or ideas?
thanks a lot
welcome to webmasterworld.
smtp might be ineffective with bulk mail, because each mail has to be transferred to the server. with an image in each mail, this will take time.
sendmail for example first takes your request to send a mail out and will queue it, send it later on. so your script can finish faster, and sendmail will to the job.
i hope that answers your first question. using sendmail seems to be better for this.
to let your server send the mails out will save your bandwidth and the server has a much bigger one, so this will go much faster.
but if you've got only some recipients, the bcc field of your mail client might work as well. just seperate each recipient with a comma. the mail data will only be transferred once to your mail server and the mailserver will send it out to each recipient.
