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From: John M. Calvert Date: Tue Mar 18 15:22:40 2003

Subject: add SMTP authentication to php.mail() function

Hello, I'm interested to add SMTP authentication to the php.mail() function.
Is this something that the PHP dev community would endorse? I'm told that as
a newbie contributor I wouldn't have direct access to the CVS, that I'd have
to post my diffs to this list or get an existing developer to sponsor my
changes. I already did the digging around and know what needs to happen: a
small number of lines of code in /win32/sendmail.c SendText() to add the
necessary SMTP AUTH commands. Maybe this has come up before and been
rejected. Let me know. I did a search in the list archives but didn't turn
anything up.

Here is some background:

I'm developing a website that will be hosted on a linux box (LAMP), however
my work machine is MS Windows 2000. The website includes a submission page
which e-mails some HTTP form posted data back to me. For simplicity I'm
simply using the php.mail() function. However, when I'm developing on
Windows 2000, if I want to test the mail submission, I don't have an SMTP
relay running locally and my ISP requires authentication for outgoing SMTP.
So for now the php.mail() fails and I fake it until the php pages are
uploaded to the server. I know I could switch to another means of sending
mail (PHP class for SMTP, etc) but I thought it would be cool to hack PHP to
add this minor feature. I would plan to add two new php.ini settings
SMTP_usr and SMTP_pwd.

Looking forward to your comments.

John M. Calvert, M.Sc., MCSD

1310521 Ontario Inc.
49 Belmont Ave.
Ottawa ON K1S 0V2
(613) 730-9851
http://members.rogers.com/john-m-calvert/

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From:	John M. Calvert	Date:	Tue Mar 18 15:22:40 2003
Subject:	add SMTP authentication to php.mail() function