Re: [mantisbt-dev] Swiftmailer vs. PHPMailer

[Vincent D. <vin...@mo...>]

Hi all,


Victor Boctor a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> We have been using PHPMailer for a while.  However, it doesn't seem to
> be in active development as it used to be.  A couple of people were
> wondering whether Mantis should move to Swiftmailer
> (http://www.swiftmailer.org/).
>
> Paul (grangeway) has also raised this issue in an email yesterday.  I
> thought it would be a good idea to send this here to get some feedback
> about this topic.
>
> I looked at Swiftmailer website and it seems to be a good library that
> it clean and well designed.  There seems to be good usage examples as
> well.  The sourceforge project statistics seems to reflect decent
> activity.  The license is LGPL.  So as far as I am concerned it looks
> like a good candidate.
>
> I haven't had a chance to try it myself, or to look at the size of the
> distribution files that we have to include in Mantis.
>   
PHPmailer has the same library for both PHP4 and PHP5. Swiftmailer has 
two libraries (one for PHP4 and one for PHP5). Which one will be 
included in Mantis distribution files?
> Do you guys have good / bad experiences with this or other libraries?
> Is it worth making the move? Swiftmailer seems to support features
> like multi-part emails, embedded images, etc which I am not sure
> whether it is supported by PHPMailer or not.
>   
PHPMailer supports also these features.

Regards,
Vincent