Email notifications - how are you doing this for your site
 

my site just did an update to 4.25 last week - I will not get into the back store on why now.... however, my users have noticed that email is not going out like it was under 4.22p6

After a bit of research, I found a potential fix on vbulletin.com withe functions_digest.php - thats good :)


However, I am wondering how you all are handling the email processing? Are you using vbulletin's functions for email sending OR are you using your own STMP? I'm interested to see what truly is the better method for this is.


Thanks,
Scott

I would offload them to an SMTP server if you have that option. It's one less cron job for vBulletin to have to run. vBulletin also processes emails in batches so it can take a lot longer for them to be sent out than it takes using an SMTP server.

this probably would also give more of a real-time email notification as well.