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/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
