Should I use php mail function or phpmailer?

Question

Well, so far, I have been using php built in function, mail(), and I have no problems with it, even I sent a blast to 1000+ users. But then, lately I found this phpmailer, which is specially design to send email.

Q1: Should I change to this phpmailer?

Q2: What are the advantages of using phpmailer?

Q3: I found other products on phpmailer website, i.e phpmailer FE, ML etc. What are those? Which one you guys is using?

Q4: Have anyone tried sending blast email to 2000+ users with phpmailer? If yes, does it cause any problems?

Thanks in advanced for answering the questions

Answer 1

Q1: You should definitely switch away from using mail()

Q2: mail() function is really, really for simple stuff. Mail libraries hide a lot of low level stuff from the user, and offer simple ways to make HTML emails, embedded images in mail, etc.

Instead of phpmailer I'd recommend SwiftMailer

• Send emails using SMTP, sendmail, postfix or a custom Transport implementation of your own
• Support servers that require username & password and/or encryption
• Protect from header injection attacks without stripping request data content
• Send MIME compliant HTML/multipart emails
• Use event-driven plugins to customize the library
• Handle large attachments and inline/embedded images with low memory use

I've used SwiftMailer to send 15000+ mails, but as you'll find in SwiftMailer documentation, its recommended to send mails in smaller batches (depends on you server ex. 100, 200, 500 per batch), using cron.

Answer 2

Hi,

@Željko Živković : Can i know how you have avoided mail sent as from spam? I'm using phpmailer to send mail through my website and most of them are being received as spam in yahoo and hotmail

thanks