NYCPHP Meetup

[Matt Juszczak]

Paul,

I'm actually pretty confident I can keep the mail servers running 
efficiently - it was actually my primary task at my previous job. 
Removing the MTA out of the picture entirely, I'm simply trying to decide 
how to push messages into the mail queues on the mail server themselves. 
I've already decided that we'll have high priority and low priority mail 
queues or MTA instances.  I'm more concerned at this point on how to get 
the messages there in the most standardized way.

- Do I want to just use mail() inside PHP and push high priority mail 
directly to the relay hosts, and then have a separate two server setup - 
one to run the cron, and one to act as the MTA, for lower priority bulk 
mail?

or

- Do I want to setup a database table, where every message goes into (high 
or low priority), and have a process constantly reading from that queue 
and creating messages (and then, sending them to the appropriate relay 
host, depending on its priority)

So really, this is a case of figuring out how to standardize email 
generation, not necesarilly sending.

-Matt