Does anyone have recommendations for a good (and lightweight!) PHP mailer library?

Question

Pretty much as the title says.

I'm currently using the SwiftMailer (http://swiftmailer.org), but I'm just wondering how it stacks up to the other libraries out there.

Answer 1

I use PHPMailer Not sure how it stacks up, but it's definitely a contender..

Edit: Check out this post to see how the two stack up

Answer 2

I use the PEAR Mail package. It's pretty simple, but I've never had any problems with it.

Answer 3

Not sure about libraries like PHPMailer, Swiftmailer, HTMLMimeMail (I've used this one for a couple of projects in the past ; never had any problem with it) or the like, but I think, for a project of my own, I'd have a look at Zend_Mail

Why ? I see at least two reasons :

• Zend Framework's components are well written, well tested
• There are maintenance releases of the Framework quite often (about once a month), which is good to know ; the project is alive
• It might be the occasion to begin using other components as well ;-)

And for a couple of drawbacks :

• You might have to extract that component (and the components it rely on) from the Framework if you don't want to include it as a whole :-(
• Officialy, you'll need PHP >= 5.2.4 (not sure about the .4) ; some components work with PHP 5.1.x, but it's not officialy supported

Answer 4

Another vote for PHPMailer here, been using it for years and haven't any problems.

Funnily enough I was looking at trying out SwiftMailer a few months back but saw some concerns about performance of the latest version on the forums which kind of put me off...

Answer 5

For everyone using PHPMailer, there is an exploit which makes it possible to read any file on the server. Check sourceforge documentation for PHPMailer to see more information.