[TYPO3-core] RFC #16911: Restructure of t3lib_utility_Mail hook subscriber

[Christian Kuhn]

On 01/10/2011 07:17 PM, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> There is a pretty complete PEAR class which parses RFC mailboxes
> already: Mail/RFC822.php [1]. Since we cannot trust on PEAR "Mail" being
> present, we must ship this functionality with the core. Licensing is
> "New BSD License" [2]. This seems to be compatible with the GPLv2, as
> this doesn't include the old "advertising clause" that the made the
> original BSD license incompatible with GPL (see [3]). Right?

IANAL, according to wikipedia it is.

> Note: It's a shame that we still need to support
> t3lib_utility_mail::mail(), but of course we need to, because we cannot
> expect everyone to start using SwiftMail from the start. But in 4.5 we
> should then deprecate:
>
> - t3lib_htmlmail
> - t3lib_utility_mail::mail
> - t3lib_mail_rfc822addressesparser
>
> So that we can remove those all together in 4.7.

+1 on reading and *rough* testing ... my scenarios seem to work.

@Jigal: Since this is your baby, I'd say go ahead ...

Regards
Christian