PEAR::Mail::Mime is a PEAR package I maintain. Mail::Mime contains a set of classes that can be used to create MIME E-Mail messages. The standard PHP mail() function only supports simply text based email. By using Mail::Mime one can send out emails containing Text or HTML Parts, add Attachments, inline images, and send e-mails in foreign languages, without having to worry about every little detail.

Mail::Mime is released under a BSD Style License, and can be installed using the PEAR Installer. For more information, check out the Mail_Mime Homepage

As some of you may know, I've been maintaining the PEAR::Mail_Mime package for over 2 and a half years. Development has been kinda slow on the package since day one, since most major features are already included. Combine that with a general lack of unit tests, and not much gets done on a package.

Recently however, much has changed. I set myself a roadmap on the pear site, and forced myself to stick to it. I submitted bugs for all the items I still felt needed to be done before we could release, and added those to said roadmaps. And, in an act that even surprised myself, I've managed to live up to all of the roadmaps so far! This means that today, Saturday May 5th 2007, there finally is another stable Mail_Mime release. A stable version, with new features, new unit tests, and no more bugs(*knocks on wood*)

I've since set roadmaps on all of the packags I maintain, and even helped other developers set up their own unit tests. And as most other developers know, it feels good to know you're helping an Open Source program, but it feels even better to actually work on it ;)

venacoms - July 17, 2008 venacoms

Jeroen D - July 10, 2007 Thanks! Excellent work on the package.

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