[TYPO3-core] t3lib_utility_Mail::mail() not using SwiftMailer?

[François Suter]

Hi all,

I just noticed that t3lib_utility_Mail::mail() does not use SwiftMailer, 
but calls PHP's mail() instead. Is that intentional? If yes, what is the 
rationale?

I find this rather embarrassing as I was testing something in 
workspaces/version and was counting on intercepting the mails by 
changing my transport to "mbox", which proved to be impossible in this 
case because the stage change notification relies on 
t3lib_div::plainMailEncoded() which itself calls t3lib_utility_Mail::mail().

Is there any reason not to use the SwiftMailer API in this case? And in 
general any reason not to use it throughout the whole Core?

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch