Re: making mail() funtion work without sendmail on UNIX systems

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > I am really not a big fan of putting smtp code into PHP on UNIX. The > > whole philosophy of UNIX is to have a collection of small specialized > > tools that work together instead of one mammoth tool. Which UNIX system > > does not have the ability to send mail? We really should not be > > re-inventing every wheel out there. > > #1 unified configuration in php.ini for win *and* unix That's just silly. The aim is then to implement all the things that don't come standard with Windows but are part of UNIX in PHP? > #2 From: header settings both message and SMTP As long as you have a trusted sender id you can set the From header already on UNIX. > #2 independance of how good the /usr/lib/sendmail binary > emulation provided by different MTAs (if at all) is So we are going to be rewriting sendmail. Great. > #4 error checking Hrm.. Maybe, although that could be handled. You completely lose the most important feature. A non-blocking mail() call which queues the message. Having a web app wait on an smtp delivery is crap. Mail should be delivered out of band. > what happens today if you have an application that does more > then just simple informative messages with PHP is that you > stay away from mail() altogether and talk SMTP using fsockopen() > as the sendmail binary interface is just not up to what you need I haven't seen anybody do this on UNIX. -Rasmus