[imp] WAP ?

Brent J. Nordquist bjn@horde.org
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:04:05 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Fabrice Laborie <laborie@sbm.net.sa> wrote:

> I was refering to
> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIVKOVIC/Mail-Sendmail-0.78.tar.gz
>
> extract from perlfoc Mail::Sendmail
> -------------8<--------------------
>     NAME
>          Mail::Sendmail v. 0.78 - Simple platform independent mailer

Well, yes, but Horde/IMP are in PHP, of course.  So:

> even for those who would trust running sendmail, the real reason would
> be NOT to FORK a new process everytime you send a mail instead of
> using a library to do so ...

Agreed.  It turns out that our own amazing Chuck Hagenbuch has already
written a PHP <-> SMTP class, it's in PEAR, and IMP 2.3.x can use it.
:-)  So this will be an option as of the next IMP release.

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