[RESOLVED] mail() + 28kb attachment takes apache 6 seconds

[peter_schneider]

If I attach a 28kB .gz file to an email with mail() (MIME,base64 encoded) the function takes apache 6! seconds to process at 50% CPU usage (on a 2 CPU system).
It takes longer with bigger files and vice versa.
After all that's way too long.

Is there a way to execute mail() in the background so that the parsing doesnt have to wait until mail() is finished?

Does anybody have an idea what takes php so long?

Is there a faster function?

[igorek]

Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.
For the sending of large amounts of email, see the » PEAR::Mail, and » PEAR::Mail_Queue packages.

I dunno if that will help but it was in the manual I haven't had time to explore it but my script only mails up to 20 people so far so i dont need it yet i think.

[peter_schneider]

that would be worth a try if there is no other solution.
but after all I'm trying to send just 1 e-mail here ... and this takes very long already.

[dagon]

you can use exec() to run a script in the background then the user will not have to wait.

[peter_schneider]

my solution: I use the PEAR Mail script now.
what took 6 seconds (with mail()) takes only 0.056 seconds now! 🙂

[igorek]

nice classes rock 🙂