Hi Tony, could you clarify your intention for this email? Are you seeking for more input whether it's a good idea, or if this actually needed? Or are you searching for agreement as you plan to work on a patch yourself? Or are you looking for somebody to work on this?
It's not entirely clear to me from your email. Thanks, andre On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 21:28 +0530, Tony Thomas wrote: > Hi, > Looks like there isn't any more reply about this proposal on > shifting from UserMailer to Swift-Mailer. Since, we have already started > with implementing VERP, it's high time this enhancement needs to be > applied, if it needs to be. If Swift-Mailer is to be done, VERP needs to be > implemented as a plugin to it, or else as an additional script in the > UserMailer code. > > Bugzilla ticket:- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63483 > > Thanks, > Tony Thomas <http://tttwrites.in> > FOSS@Amrita <http://foss.amrita.ac.in> > > *"where there is a wifi,there is a way"* > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Tony Thomas <01tonytho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > While working on implementing VERP for Mediawiki[1], Nemo > > pointed to me, Tyler' recommendation[2] on shifting from PHP mailer to > > Swift Mailer[3]. Quoting Tyler's words : > > "PHPMailer has everything packed into a few classes, whereas Swift_Mailer > > actually has a separation of concerns, with classes for attachments, > > transport types, etc. A result of this is that PHPMailer has two different > > functions for embedding multimedia: addEmbeddedImage() for files and > > addStringEmbeddedImage() for strings. Another example is that PHPMailer > > supports only two bodies for multipart messages, whereas Swift_Mailer will > > add in as many bodies as you tell it to since a body is wrapped in its own > > object. In addition, PHPMailer only really supports SMTP, whereas > > Swift_Mailer has an extensible transport architecture, and multiple > > transport providers. (And there's also plugins, and monolog integration, > > etc". > > > > My mentors too think about it to be a nice idea, and Nemo > > recommended adding it to my GSoC project deliverable here ( > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VERP#Deliverables ). But, we need more > > community-consensus on the same as this needs to be done first, and VERP as > > a plugin to it, if Swift mailer needs to be done. I have opened a BZ ticket > > for the same ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63483 ). > > Please comment to this thread or in the BZ regarding the shift as it needs > > to be done for a start. The discussions we had on this till date is here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VERP#Swift_Mailer_and_VERP__40928. > > > > [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VERP > > [2]: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Third-party_components > > [3]: http://swiftmailer.org/ > > > > > > Thanks, > > Tony Thomas <http://tttwrites.in> > > FOSS@Amrita <http://foss.amrita.ac.in> > > > > *"where there is a wifi,there is a way"* > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
