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

For the record, I agree with Rasmus on this one. It sounds silly to reinvent the wheel on UNIX. On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -Andrei * I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path. *