Sending emails is one of the biggest challenges for a website.  As well as making sure they’re secure, you want to ensure that no emails get lost.  Since the British Companies Act 2006 made email a legally-recognised form of communication, you also want to ensure that you know what is being sent out in your name.  The biggest problem I’ve had is where a script has died when it should have sent an email (usually caused by the pesky Sendmail) and just leaves users waiting for their emails ad infinitum.  I’ve also had times where the server has had a limited number of emails it can send per day/hour.  This is my attempt to solve these problems.

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