phpmailer

[ryan]

Integrate phpmailer to gain smarter header encoding and the option of SMTP. We could setup phpmailer to use php's mai() by default and add a hook that would allow plugins to configure phpmailer for SMTP.

phpmailer will hopefully fix encoding issues like #209.

class-phpmailer.php, class-smtp.php, new wp_mail()

Looks nice. Good news to me. Many people, include me, can't use PHP's mail() function on their virtual hosts.

I remember that PHPMailer doesn't support SSL connection so it can't connect Google SMTP server.

Patch looks good, +1 from me for including phpmailer. That way we don't have to deal with all that mail stuff in the core.

I found this thread on adding SSL support.

​http://drupal.org/node/39138

(In [4946]) Trying out phpmailer for wp_mail(). fixes #3862

Should note that phpMailer doesn't seem to handle 8bit emails with utf-8 encoded subjects very well. They seem to get truncated.

I've been looking over swiftmailer, but it is has dozens of files versus phpmailer's one file. If anyone wants to experiment with plugging swiftmailer into wp_mail(), let us know how it goes.

​http://swiftmailer.org/

Use their php4 package rather than the php5 one.