Script taking a long time to process

[Anon]

I have a script processes a bunch of forms that are filled in by email addresses. Usually the script processes them instantly. But the odd time - outside of the testing environment - when live users are entering other email addresses (different domains...) I see them having to wait up to 1 minute or or more for the script to process. In times like that when I try to send the email it is even slow for me.

I am using the mail() with sendmail on redhat 6.2

The only thing i can think is i have to somehow send them to a queue so the php script doesn't have to let the user "hang" while slow sendmail is trying to send out the email.

Any ideas would be extremely EXTREMELY appreciated!!!

-Carl

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Sending mail using the mail() function can be slow sometimes.
You may get faster results if you talk to sendmail directly.
Or you could use your main script to start (system/exec) a CGI copy of PHP and have that script send the actual email. That way your parent script can continue while the other script waits for the mail() to complete.