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Feature #42321

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MailUtility should be marked as deprecated

Added by Michael Bakonyi about 12 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Must have

Assignee:

Jigal van Hemert

Category:

Code Cleanup

Target version:

6.1.0-beta2

Start date:

2012-10-23

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

PHP Version:

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Complexity:

medium

Sprint Focus:

Description

typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Utility/MailUtility.php should be marked as deprecated, as this is an old API which.

Internally it currently calls the SwiftMailer API (until 4.6 configurable via $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['MAIL']['substituteOldMailAPI'], from 4.7 done by default through a registered hook), but this is very error prone and not bullet-proof.

See the following discussions for past thoughts on that issue:

http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-team-core/2012-May/051626.html

http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-team-core/2012-January/051084.html

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Updated by Benni Mack about 12 years ago

Status changed from New to Accepted
Complexity set to medium

Definitively ToDo

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Updated by Ernesto Baschny about 12 years ago

From the second thread, I quote myself:

So +1 on deprecating t3lib_utility_mail::mail(). Other methods like getSystemFrom, getSystemFromName, getSystemFromAddress are still interesting and can be kept in this utility class.

So let's deprecate it now (with 6.0) in this is the issue to do it.

Other thoughts for the future (could / should be a separate issue):

Another idea would be to add a very simple "simpleMail()" method there which can be used to simply send "simple mails out" (like notifications):

ASCII-text body

Subject

Array of destination addresses

From is chosen by the system

So that extensions wanting to just "say something via email" can do it with one simple line of code. Any further requirements (HTML-body, etc) the extension developer should create a t3lib_mail object.