Michael Baierl wrote:
NetOne - Doichin Dokov wrote:
Since we're throwing ideas out for v.next, I'd like to investigate the possibility of using http://www.swiftmailer.org library for mail sending duties. Their claims of being able to handle large attachments in only 8M of memory sound pretty good :-)
I'm becoming devils advocate on this mailing list :)
BUT why should a PHP app take care of sending mails if you have Sendmail on the computer? That's why it is usually installed there - to send mails and as far as I know sending mails using Sendmail works perfectly fine.
because the server running roundcube is not nececerally running a full featured sendmail compatible environment with access to the _real_ mailservers?
The Linux approach is that each app does one thing and it does it perfect with a lot of options. To me it seems Roundcube is moving to a direction where it tries to do everything on its own, becoming like... uh.... Word?
yes, but linux tools use basic system libs. the linux distributions we know combine all those tools to a working environment.
same with roundcube. use classes/other applications/plugins which do their well defined job and integrate it to something bigger.
IMHO Roundcube should focus on the User Interface, becoming the Thunderbird for the Web, and not try to become a full mail suite like i.e. Zimbra.
yes - and getting and sending (!) email via an arbitrary mailserver is part of a decent mail application.
moreover, i agree with till on the "mail() sent mail looks forged" argument.
cheers, raoul