On 2013-11-18 1:07 AM, Matthias Paul wrote: > I'm trying to install a MediaWiki instance. Although I never worked > with MediaWiki before, I feel quite comfortable with server issues > (*nix) and PHP. > > I'd like to have mail support in the MW instance. Unfortunately I > cannot rely on sendmail (or even mini_sendmail) binary in my > installation for several reasons - both requiring a shell binary. > It seems, it's possible to replace original PHP's mail() command by an > alternate mailer program. Have you tried using $wgSMTP?
> a) Is includes/UserMailer.php the main and only spot where mail > functionality code can be spotted? It should be. A quick ack/grep doesn't show anything else. > b) I read about hooks in mailer class code (line 288 of > https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/UserMailer_8php_source.html): > $ret = wfRunHooks( 'AlternateUserMailer', array( $headers, $to, $from, > $subject, $body ) ); > Is this hook meant to replace the original mail program? Yes that hook allows an extension to override the mail()/PEAR::Mail handling and implement an alternative mailer backend. > c) Did anyone replace original mailing code by PHPMailer yet? Not that I know of. But it would be a nice project. PHPMailer is pretty nice, it's even in composer too. Which makes me a little happy, while also reminding me that someone has made a "feature" our lack of a composer.json file – which we could otherwise have put a PHPMailer into, incorporated composer into the release process depending on libraries directly, and not having to go and shove a big blob of 3rd party code into our codebase with absolutely no handling for when it becomes outdated. > d) Or is it easier to just use PEAR::Mail instead of PHPMailer (there > seemed to be some code about PEAR in it)? Nah it's just another part of MW that is legacy code with a bit of NIH sprinkled on it. > Thank you for reading, > Matthias ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
