On the PHP::Impact blog, there's a new post talking about his conversion from Swift Mailer over to the Zend_Mail component of the Zend Framework.

I've recently switched from Swift Mailer to Zend_Mail and, to be honest, I'm loving it. Finally someone developed a lightweight, powerful and easy to use Mail component!

He includes an example or two showing a basic mailer script, one that uses a fluent interface, one sending an HTML email and two that show how to use a remote SMTP server.

On the Symfony blog, there's a new post showing the answer to a common question framework users have - what's the best way to send emails from inside our framework applications.

Sending mails is a web developer's everyday task, and symfony 1.1 let you do this easier than ever using Swift Mailer. Swift Mailer is a well thought, fully featured PHP5 object library that will cover 120% of your mailing needs.

They show how to create a partial or a component in your application that generates the content for the emails and pushes that result out to the Swift Mailer application. They show the (simple) installation from a svn checkout and two examples of sending emails, one simple and another with a multipart message.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of their podcast - PHP Abstract - with a show hosted by Chris Corbyn on SwiftMailer.

Our special guest today is Chris Corbyn. Chris is a professional Software Engineer based in the United Kingdom. He is fluent in PHP, JavaScript, XHTML as well as database design and management. In his spare time, Chris enjoys Snooker and Badminton.

Chris is going to talk to us about his open source project, SwiftMailer and how it can help you in your PHP applications.

The show mentions both SwiftMailer and the the PHP Developer's Network. You can grab the download directly from here or just subscribe to the podcast's feed here.

On The Bakery (the CakePHP blog) today, there's a new tutorial covering the SwiftMailer Component:

I would still advise you read the Swift Mailer documentation here: http://www.swiftmailer.org/docs/ SwiftMailer Component isn't an attempt to hide the already excellent class written by Chris Corbyn. Rather, the component tries to integrate and extend it (read, Cake-ish!).

They walk through the installation and where to unpack the download to ensure it works with your installation of CakePHP. You'll need to add the component to the main controller, but other than that, you're ready to go. From there it's configuration issues:

• connecting to the local MTA (like sendmail or a SMTP server)
• configuring the authentication for sending
• and, of course, creating a message to go out

They demonstrate the creation of this through a view in the application that can natively send both HTML and plain-text emails.