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Customised version of phpmailer for Moodle

Author: Dan Poltawski <talktodan@gmail.com>
License: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
File Size: 177 lines (6 kb)
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Defines 1 class

moodle_phpmailer:: (6 methods):
  __construct()
  addCustomHeader()
  encodeHeader()
  rfcDate()
  postSend()
  process_oauth()


Class: moodle_phpmailer  - X-Ref

Moodle Customised version of the PHPMailer class

This class extends the stock PHPMailer class
in order to make sensible configuration choices,
and behave in a way which is friendly to moodle.

__construct()   X-Ref
Constructor - creates an instance of the PHPMailer class
with Moodle defaults.


addCustomHeader($custom_header, $value = null)   X-Ref
Extended AddCustomHeader function in order to stop duplicate
message-ids
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-3681


encodeHeader($str, $position = 'text')   X-Ref
Use internal moodles own core_text to encode mimeheaders.
Fall back to phpmailers inbuilt functions if not


rfcDate()   X-Ref
Replaced function to fix tz bug:
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12596


postSend()   X-Ref
Sends this mail.

This function has been overridden to facilitate unit testing.

return: bool

process_oauth()   X-Ref
Config the PHPMailer to use OAUTH if necessary.