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SMTP vs regular email? | Forum

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Joseph
Joseph Oct 8 '12
I am wondering is it better to setup smtp for oxwall? does it help improve anything or is it a pointless feature for most of us?
Purusothaman Ramanujam
mail() function of PHP is slow as it opens sockets every time for every email. 

For massmailing as in Oxwall, smtp or sendmail (php function is suggested).

But when compared to sendmail, smtp is faster.
Joseph
Joseph Oct 8 '12
ok awesome thanks that's good to know and I assume this will take some of teh load of maass mailing off of my server as well
Purusothaman Ramanujam
Yes. But your smtp server should be good enough for that.
Joseph
Joseph Oct 8 '12
I would prefer to use a different server for it like google smtp just to eliminate as much load as possible
Purusothaman Ramanujam
Its possible. Once I used free Amazon SMTP for my customer. It provides lot of features.