Alternative for PHP mail

Question

In relation to an earlier question I\'m looking for an alternative way to send an order from my website to the division in my company that processes the order.

Currently

Answer 1

mail() is fine for simple stuff, but often you want a more robust library that has solved the mail problem in PHP.

My personal choice is Swift Mailer.

Also from reading your other question, could this be of benefit

• Your app writes the order email to database, in a queue.
• You have a Cron running, that sends say 30 emails every 10 minutes.
• It then removes the last sent 30, ready to be processed again in 10 minutes.

The advantage is that when you have a queue of emails to be sent out, they can be processed in batches, and also you will have a copy in the database if the mail fails. It will be easier to query the database then chase up the mailed that was undelivered (or delivered late).