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.

[ryan]

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

[yskin]

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.

[rob1n]

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.

[ryan]

I found this thread on adding SSL support.

​http://drupal.org/node/39138

[ryan]

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

[robertaccettura]

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

[ryan]

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.