I'm pretty sure we did send them upstream ...

On 08/02/2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:58:09AM +0100, Isaac Clerencia wrote:
> > On Feb 7, 2008 9:20 AM, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Heya,
> > >
> > > The bug about the embedded copy of phpmailer in moodle has been open for
> > > ages now without any activity. Isaac, you said you couldn't use the
> > > Debian package (at that time): Is that still true? Would it be possible
> > > to adjust libphp-phpmailer to your needs?
> > Well, I am basically MIA at the time, so I am not too responsive and
> > don't have the
> > time to check again, but as far as I know nothing has changed and Moodle 
> > still
> > requires a modified phpmailer.
>
> Isaac, please search for a co-maintainer. Moodle has regular security issues
> and needs to be maintained by someone who can test update etc.
>
> Wrt the phpmailer copy:
> The differences between Moodle's version of phpmailer and the lib version in
> Debian are minimal, from a cursory check it's:
>
> 1. Adding another MSD ID for threading
> 2. A multibyte encoding fix
>
> $ diff -waur ./lib/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php  
> ../libphp-phpmailer-1.73/class.phpmailer.php  | diffstat
>  class.phpmailer.php |   69 
> ++--------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>
> This could be resolved upstream, e.g. by sending the bugfixes to phpmailer
> upstream. I don't see why we should apply lower standards for PHP applications
> than we do for regular C-based applications.
>
> Since there's still plenty of time left before Lenny I'd recommend to leave 
> this
> bug open for now.
>
> Cheers,
>         Moritz
>
>
>
>


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