mailing from PHP slow?

Hi,
I have this form, where people enter data and afterwards should receive an confirmation-message (autoresponder).
This is , of course, very straightforward:
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mail("$receiver","$subject", "$body","From: $sendernReply-To: $sender");
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The above works, but the problem is, that it's *slow*. It takes about 10 seconds for sending one message, while other PHP-scripts on the same server run *very fast*.

Has anyone ever experienced same problems, or do you know a solution?

p.s. sending mail with perl works fine, no speed problems there, but i'm actually not in the mood, for calling a perl-script from my PHP file. Any other solutions within PHP itself?

Thanx in advance!
EyE

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