[wp-hackers] PHPMailer was a mistake

[Roy Schestowitz]

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Captain's log. We received a signal from Computer Guru on StarDate
15/09/07 09:06. Translated to English it stated:
> Quick question:
> On every single shared host (and dedicated) I've seen, PHP was
> configured to use localhost:25 no password to send email.
>
> Assuming that the lack of an SMTP server is an obstacle, wouldn't it
> suffice to have it set to localhost:25 by default?
I'm not even sure if many Web hosts permit SMTP at all (easy to use
arbitrary sites as proxies for spamming), esp. with all these botnets
around. You can't rely on or assume availability of SMTP for crucial
services.

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