NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Lieberman]

mikesz at qualityadvantages.com wrote:
> Forgot, I was using the mail.mysite.com and the IP address for same
> with similar results and it worked beautifully until they blocked the
> SMTP port on me.
>
> I have had mixed results with windows sendmail clones. Fake Sendmail
> worked sometimes but crashed a lot so I stopped using it. Pear Mail
> works beautifully and allows you to specify authentication settings so
> you can log into your external mailserver
>   
As I said earlier, moving away from just "mail()" is usually a good idea.

phpmailer used to be what I'd use, until I found swiftmailer, which is 
capable, nicely designed, and nicely implemented, and nicely documented.

the only downside to swiftmailer might be that newer releases are 
php5-only.  But I think that at the moment, there are separate php4 and 
php5 libraries available.

-Tim