http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/ Alex's Support Forums Topic: What is PHPMailer? en Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:12:42 +0000 http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/topic/what-is-phpmailer#post-7 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:16:36 +0000 Alex 7@http://www.alex-hardy.co.uk/forums/ <p>With the release of simpleContact 1.1 I added a more robust mechanism for sending emails. </p> <p><a href="http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com">PHPMailer</a> is a “full featured email transfer class for PHP” that exposes a much greater range of features than the standard PHP mail() function. I have it used on several projects in the past, and it has proven itself both highly useful and reliable. </p> <p>PHPMailer is produced by Brent R. Matzelle (original author), Andy Prevost (project administrator), Patrice Fournier, Chris Ryan, Cem Hurturk, Tom Klingenberg and Jaime Bozza. </p> <p>The version of PHPMailer that I have supplied is version 1.73, the latest at the time of authoring. </p> <p>PHPMailer is free software. It is distributed in accordance with the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). It is supplied in its entirety and unmodified (see phpmailer-1.73.zip in the application download). There is no warranty or responsibility on the part of the original author. </p> <p>Please note: </p> <ul> <li>I have supplied phpmailer-1.73.zip in complete form to fulfil my obligation under the LGPL</li> <li>You only need to upload the class.phpmailer.php and class.smtp.php files (which are already in place in the simpleContact folder) for simpleContact to use it</li> <li>If for any reason PHPMailer fails in use, simpleContact will revert to the PHP mail() function</li> <li>If you use PHPMailer as part of simpleContact for commercial purposes, please consider making a donation to the PHPMailer project</li> </ul>