By garson
I am trying to figure out why my Gmail PHPMailer sends are soooo slow (more than a minute for a tiny email). I tried the following:
telnet smtp.gmail.com 587
…I get a message saying that the server is (I added the etc’s)
Trying 2607:f8b0:etc:etc::6c…"
Then, 4 minutes later, this output appeared:
Trying 64.233.etc.etc Connected to smtp.gmail.com Escape character is ‘^]’. 220 mx.google.com etc…
I believe that I have everything configured to send mail. I do receive the emails, but not for several minutes.
Can anyone shed some light on this situation? Could this be why PHPMailer is so slow? Thanks!
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