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There are hundreds of ready made libraries which help you easily talk to SMTP without invoking a shell cmd. You also have the option to use sock functions (fsoc

by arasx 10y ago

There are hundreds of ready made libraries which help you easily talk to SMTP without invoking a shell cmd. You also have the option to use sock functions (fsockopen) and write your connection wrapper. These are not windows-only features.

throwanem 10y ago
Of course. The part I still can't get my head around is where the language feature that'd relieve me of the need to vet a library, or worse write socket code by hand like some kind of barbarian, isn't compiled in for non-Windows platforms, because reasons.
- Piskvorrr 10y ago
  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ PHP. This is one of the insane decisions made in PHP4 that stays there because it's always been there.