Re: Re: Sending PHP mail with Authentication

From: Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:29:17 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Sending PHP mail with Authentication
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:06:30AM +0200, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote: [snip] > I'm sure I'm going to annoy people with this, but I would advise to > never use PEAR. It's the biggest load of extremely badly coded PHP > you'll ever find. Creating an SMTP client (with the purpose of just > sending mail) is very easy to do yourself (and also a good challenge > if you're not yet very skilled with PHP). Alternatively, you can > indeed use a package such as PHPMailer; it's not perfect, and quite > bloated for what you want probably, but it works rather well. > I have to agree on the code bloat. Unless your requirements are extraordinary (which the OP's are), the native PHP mail() function is generally quite adequate. Never thought about creating a PHP email client. Interesting idea... Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com

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