Re: Re: Sending PHP mail with Authentication
| From: | Paul M Foster | 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:
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> 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
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