My point back then was not that it doesn’t support mail(), but that it doesn’t support extending the framework with additional, new transport mechanisms.
However, if people really have a concern about SwiftMailer, I’ll take another look at PHPMailer and see if I can put together a more comprehensive comparison. (I’ll post again here in a day or so.) -- Tyler Romeo 0xC86B42DF
From: Daniel Friesen daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com Reply: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: June 12, 2014 at 3:10:56 To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikitech-l] Which mailer should we use? (was: Making a plain MW core git clone not be installable)
Which doing a bit of digging myself appears to be partially incorrect. Looking at the code PHPMailer does support mail() and sendmail in addition to SMTP. So it basically supports the exact same list of email sending methods as Swift Mailer's transports do.