SMTP options: phpmailer, swift mailer,...

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6433

I've been using phpmailer for several non-Nuke projects, and started to notice some issues with it that are driving me nuts. I noticed that Swift Mailer has some interesting features, and wondered if anyone looked at it. Thoughts?

Some of the interesting features:
* Multiple encoding options
* Unlimited redundant connections (can use mixed types too)
* Connection rotating/load balancing
* TLS Support - for Gmail servers
* Embedded Images or other file types
* Builds and sends Multipart messages
* Sends single-part emails as usual
* Fast Cc and Bcc handling
* Unicode UTF-8 support, with auto-detection
* Handles denied recipients in batch mailing whilst still delivering to the others
* Optional auto-detection of SMTP or Sendmail settings
* Batch emailing with multiple To's or without
* Send to hundreds of thousands of addresses without cron
* Support for multiple attachments
* Set message priority
* Request Read Receipts
* Sendmail (or other binary) support
* Pluggable SMTP Authentication (LOGIN, PLAIN, MD5-CRAM, POP Before SMTP)
* Anti-Flooding support (reconnect every X emails) via plugin
* Secure Socket Layer connections (SSL)
* Loadable plugin support with event handling features

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:33 pm

Looks to me like I just need to put HTML Newsletter on the shelf... can't compete with that list. Wink

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:33 am

Funny...I know you're joking...I was actually thinking that you could use it - especially these:
* Send to hundreds of thousands of addresses without cron
* Anti-Flooding support (reconnect every X emails) via plugin

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:26 am

Some truth, some jest... just depressed that I have no time to improve this thing. I did, however, have the same thought as you (after getting over the brief "depression"), that maybe I could incorporate pieces of this and possibly cut down the development cycle (with all proper credits applied, of course).

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:46 am

Exactly. My thought was, why reinvent the wheel? Especially when the class is designed for this type of use and it's LGPL... That should cheer you up a bit!