Re: mail() and windows

colin mcdonald wrote: > I've been reading about (and experiencing) the problems with sending > mail on windows. > Question: Are there any plans in the near future to clean/rewrite this > code? I keep seeing the comment that "mail() badly needs a rewrite on > windows". somehow, i have plans to rewrite the mail() stuff altogether to have a *working* SMTP implementation on Windows and the option to use SMTP on UNIX but i have no spare time right now and still no working windows dev system > Question(s): If there are no plans in the near future, how can I help? > What needs to be rewritten (besides the obvious handling Bcc header > and making the header case-insensitive)? I've been experiencing > problems when sending attachments that are slightly longer than 2kb. > What would need to be rewritten to get this working. Is it a lower > level than the code in php (ie win sockets)? the whole php4/win32/sendmail.c file looks like a quick hack or like someone not really knowing the RFCs did it but as far as i can tell it uses BSD socket functions like connect(), send() and receive() only and nothing winsock-specific -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77