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

Don't you think that on some systems (probably with high loads) it might be much more efficient to use SMTP than spanning "mail" via fork()/exec()? Andi At 09:20 AM 10/19/2001 -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

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. * -- 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