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I was in the same spot a while back and after doing some research I decided to use phpmailer class http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmailer/ ,namely class.phpmailer-lite.php Download the package, it is easy to use and has examples that will get you running quickly.

Thanks Scott - I just opened a support ticket for this. I also did some more testing - resizing of the images to 200px wide (retaining proportions) took: image 1 (.jpg, 400x266, 42KB) completed in 7.5 sec image 2 (.jpg, 1024x768, 606KB) completed in 8.25 sec image 3 (.jpg, 3032x2007, 1.9MB) completed in 8.5 sec image 4 (.jpg, 4872x3248, 9.4MB) completed in 10.3 sec Seems that there is a 7+ seconds delay in execution... Image 1 should have converted instantaneously. If anyone knows why this is happening please let me know.

Resizing a relatively small picture (1024x768, 600kb) using ImageMagick command line utility takes 8-9 seconds. I tried this on 2 different MDD shared hosting servers - the time it took to complete was similar. I am using a test php page with only one line >>> exec( "convert t.jpg -resize 200x200 ts.jpg") Any idea why it is so slow? From what I am seeing online, the task should take no more than 0.5 seconds (from replays on http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12106) Thanks.