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[2005-04-11 22:06 UTC] randy at rcs-comp dot com

Description:
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I have modified the MAIL/smtp.php factory so that send()
can be accomplished with a persistent SMTP connection. With my modification, the socket connection is kept for multiple sends instead of being connected every time. I realize this is not a big deal for most people since their webserver and email server are on the same hostor at least on the same network. However, when I locally develop I like to test email sending from the target email server which has to first go out my slow broadband connection. As you can imagine, using mail_queue processing the queue takes a long time. This modification shaved off about 60% of the time it took to send 50 emails (I only compared once so it might not be
that good of a test)

PLEASE NOTE THE BASE VERSION I MODIFIED:

MAIL = 1.1.4

I used a register_shutdown_function to close the persistant connection. I am not up to date with PHP5 objects yet so I am not sure if that is the best way to do it or if you are going for destructor use now.

Reproduce code:
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http://www.rcs-comp.com/phpcode/newsmtp.php.txt

use this to activate it:

$params['persistent'] = true;

[2005-05-16 20:27 UTC] randy at rcs-comp dot com

http://www.rcs-comp.com/phpcode/smtp.diff