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Send email with PhpMailer without waiting for return

I'm using PhpMailer to send e-mails. It's working fine.

But in some cases I don't want to wait for the send function to return, specially because it can take a while sometimes. I just want to send and finish the funcition right away.

Is it possible to achieve this?

This is a sample code I'm using (nothing different from the basics).

try {
    $mail = new PHPMailer(true);
    $mail->isSMTP();
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 0;
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls';
    // ...other options...
    $mail->send();

    return true;
} catch (Exception $e) {
    return $e;
}
Solution

  • You don't need to use ajax or configure your own queueing system to do this. Just use a local mail server - which implicitly has a built-in queueing system that you don't need to configure - and you can submit messages to it in a fraction of a second. There is some performance advice on the PHPMailer wiki.