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weblog comparisons - ALL bad on smtp

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, November 02 2001 @ 10:12 am EST

In some comment above I actually forgot something which for some people would be really cool:

Mail from via central function that could be hacked or alternativly (and better) let people choose between mail/sendmail and some SMTP library that you provide :)

This is why: Under Unixes PhP compiles with sendmail support. Now sendmail does not work in some places. E.g. I have an address like x@host.domain.ch. Host.domain.ch is a real machine and sendmail instead of sending it to the Mail exchange (MX) sends it to a physical machine which just trashes the mail. Don't really understand all this (and in theory sendmail might be configured maybe, but in a sendmail hating environment nobody will help me with this). In any casee, I know that I am not the only one who has to use a smtp class. E.g. in some LANs, sendmail is not even allowed.

If you are interested there are several packages: http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/14
http://www.phpguru.org/scripts/10/
http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/
Doing it properly is some work I guess, but at least calling a central "mymail" and preferable with more arguments than just the 4 mail() ones would ease adaptation work. NONE of the portals I have looked at, have this feature. Would be another argument in favor of GL :).

Bad and lazy programmers like me just do something like this and global-replace calls to mail() .... (and loose some information):

require ("/web/lib/php/smtp-mail/smtp.class");

function my_mail($mailto, $subject, $message, $headers) {
// fix arguments
$mailtolist[]=$mailto;
$from="webrobot@x.y.ch";
// headers come in string :( )
$headers=split("n",$headers);
$headers[]="Subject: ".$subject."n";
// debugging
foreach ($headers as $el ) {
echo "EL=$el";
};
// send it
$mailer = new smtp_class();
$mailer->SendMessage($from,$mailtolist,$headers,$message);
}

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