Well, so far, I have been using php built in function, mail(), and I have no problems with it, even I sent a blast to 1000+ users. But then, lately I found this phpmailer, which is specially design to send email.
Q1: Should I change to this phpmailer?
Q2: What are the advantages of using phpmailer?
Q3: I found other products on phpmailer website, i.e phpmailer FE, ML etc. What are those? Which one you guys is using?
Q4: Have anyone tried sending blast email to 2000+ users with phpmailer? If yes, does it cause any problems?
Q1: You should definitely switch away from using mail()
Q2: mail() function is really, really for simple stuff. Mail libraries hide a lot of low level stuff from the user, and offer simple ways to make HTML emails, embedded images in mail, etc.
Instead of phpmailer I'd recommend SwiftMailer
- Send emails using SMTP, sendmail, postfix or a custom Transport implementation of your own
- Support servers that require username & password and/or encryption
- Protect from header injection attacks without stripping request data content
- Send MIME compliant HTML/multipart emails
- Use event-driven plugins to customize the library
- Handle large attachments and inline/embedded images with low memory use
I've used SwiftMailer to send 15000+ mails, but as you'll find in SwiftMailer documentation, its recommended to send mails in smaller batches (depends on you server ex. 100, 200, 500 per batch), using cron.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231886/should-i-use-php-mail-function-or-phpmailer