Translate from mail() parameters style library to PHPMailer library

[Flow75]

Hello,

I've implemented since day 1 the mail function on my server.

I would like to transfert the mail part to PHPMailer (it seems much faster than the sendmail protocol).

So I've all my mail() calls implemented with the body, adress_to, Headers. And when I send files attached, they are already in the body with the boundary.

Is there a way not to rewrite all php scripts calling mail() and replace the call by other thing ?

Thank you.
F.

[Synchro]

There isn't an automated way of doing this because there are infinite ways that you can prepare content for what's sent using mail(). Translating your setup should not be too difficult though. Map all your recipients to the addAddress(), addCC(), and addBCC() methods, set headers using addCustomHeader() (but check whether you need to first - PHPMailer sets all the important ones for you), set your subject by setting the Subject property, and make use of addAttachment to add your attachments. Boundaries are all handled for you, so you don't need to worry about them.

You should be able to bundle all this into a function that accepts most of the inputs you're currently generating yourself, and then replce your mail() calls with calls to this wrapper function instead.

I would not expect simply switching to PHPMailer directly would give you any performance advantage, but if you call isSMTP(), it should be faster than using mail() when sending to localhost.