Integration of swiftmailer

[adrian]

I'd really love to see swiftmailer integrated as an option for all emailing. I have used it exclusively since it was released in 2005 and it is just brilliant for everything from attachments to combined plain text / html versions of emails, through to bulk enewsletter mail outs to thousands of recipients, including Mail merge. It has various features to prevent overloading mail servers etc. A brilliant mailing class. I have already used it with PW, but would love to see it part of the core and directly accessible from the API.

[Pete]

The general rule of thumb is that anything that the majority of people wouldn't use exists as an add-on module rather than in the core.

That's not to say something like this isn't useful, I know it would be, but it's not often you would need full-blown emailing capabilities like that.

It's usually relatively easy to implement external packages as modules though to make config nice and easy through the ProcessWire admin and make it easily callable without needing to know paths etc so maybe that is the way forward for it.

[adrian]

Hey Pete - for sure - I was definitely thinking of a module for this. I guess I should have posted this on the modules board. I might even get around to doing it myself once I have a little free time. I mostly just wanted to get the idea out there while I thought of it.

[MatthewSchenker]

Greetings,

Thanks adrian for the post.  I like Swiftmailer, and find it to be a very neat library with great documentation.  It's so easy to use that I think perhaps just a set of instructions for including the library in our projects would be good enough.  Or -- as Pete said -- it could be made into an optional module.

Definitely, I like the concept that these things are left out of the core.  That way, everyone can choose their own path.

Thanks again,

Matthew