NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009, Leam Hall wrote:

> A mail server is to deal with programs that can't do mail on their own.

Not really - simply relying on SMTP from a PHP script is not really a 
reliable (or efficient) way to send out email. Much better to have a 
dedicated mail server that can queue the email, handle retries and 
bounces, etc. Your PHP script should just hand off the email to your mail 
server.


-- 
Aj. (wearing sys admin hat).