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<title>phpmailer FAQ</title>
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<h2>phpmailer FAQ</h2>
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<p>
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<b>I'm using the SMTP mailer and I keep on getting a timeout message
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well before the X seconds I set it for. What gives?</b>
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PHP versions 4.0.4pl1 and earlier have a bug in which sockets timeout
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early. You can fix this by re-compiling PHP 4.0.4pl1 with this fix:
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<a href="timeoutfix.diff">timeoutfix.diff</a>. Otherwise you can wait
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for the new PHP release.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>I am concerned that using include files will take up too much
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processing time on my computer. How can I make it run faster?</b>
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PHP by itself is very fast. Much faster than ASP or JSP running on
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the same type of server. This is because it has very little overhead compared
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to its competitors and it pre-compiles all of
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its code before it runs each script (in PHP4). However, all of
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this compiling and re-compiling can take up a lot of valuable
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computer resources. However, there are programs out there that compile
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PHP code and store it in memory (or on mmaped files) to reduce the
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processing immensely. Two of these: <a href="http://apc.communityconnect.com">APC
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(Alternative PHP Cache)</a> and <a href="http://bwcache.bware.it/index.htm">Afterburner</a>
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(<a href="http://www.mm4.de/php4win/mod_php4_win32/">Win32 download</a>)
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are excellent free tools that do just this. If you have the money
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you might also try <a href="http://www.zend.com">Zend Cache</a>, it is
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even faster than the open source varieties. All of these tools make your
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scripts run faster while also reducing the load on your server. I have tried
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them myself and they are quite stable too.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>What mailer gives me the best performance?</b>
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On a single machine the mail() or sendmail mailers give you the best
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performance because they do not have the added overhead of SMTP.
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If you have you have your mail server on a another machine then
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SMTP is your only option, but you do get the benefit of redundant
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mail servers.
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</p>
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<p>
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<b>When I try to attach a file with on my server I get a
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"Could not find {file} on filesystem error". Why is this?</b>
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If you are using a Unix machine this is probably because the user
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running your web server does not have read access to the directory
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in question. If you are using Windows, then the problem probably is
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that you have used single backslashes to denote directories ("\").
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A single backslash has a special meaning to PHP so these are not
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valid. Instead use double backslashes ("\\") or a single forward
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slash ("/").
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</p>
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