mail function / sendmail / "-q"

freebie

I've read there's a last option to the mail function that allows you to send a parameter to the mail server (sendmail).
Specifically, by adding "-q", you can force sendmail to queue the email sends (and thus the php script doesn't wait for sendmail to do the DNS checks).
Does anyone know if it's possible to configure php (using php.ini) to always do this (rather than specifying it in each mail() function call)?

DonChris

perhaps it might work like this:


; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
sendmail_path =/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -q

freebie

Thanks for the reply.
I tried that, but the mail function would work afterwards.

I have a general thought though that there is a way to configure sendmail itself such that the delay doesn't happen

The reason I think this is that I've had the mail() function work very fast on a server (using it inside a loop) with the default setting (/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i). In other words, sending 100 emails in 1 second.

Does anyone have any insight as to why mail() would work slow on one server (a fast server with fast connection speed), and very fast on another, both having the same sendmail value (/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i) ?