XF 2.1 Problem with email

[arturo.poveda]

I'm hosted in a shared hosting; for security measures my service provider disabled access to PHP's insecure functions; keeping in mind that the server works in a secure environment.
When I had XenForo 1.5 installed, the Email service worked correctly through sendmail (Using the zend-mail library that uses the mail () function). When I upgrade to XenForo 2.1 I find that it uses the library "swiftmailer" and for some reason the emails were not sent.

Reviewing the codes a bit, I find the following shipping methods: (File /src/vendor/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/lib/classes/Swift/Transport/StreamBuffer.php)





As you can see, the proc_open and stream_socket_client functions are used; which are marked as insecure by my hosting provider.
As I have noticed XenForo 2.1 keeps the directory / src / vendor / zendframework / zend-mail; Is there any way to tell XenForo to send emails using the zend-mail library and not swiftmailer?
In case of achieving change the library; Would it be necessary to update the configuration in the plugins?

 

[Chris D]

Those functions are only insecure if they are used in an insecure way. That isn't the case for our software - it is used in a sensible and secure way in both cases.

Swift Mailer is by far a much more superior library for handling email transport and related matters than Zend, and one that is actively developed by a hugely active open source community.

Quite simply, if you are unable to get those functions enabled, we'd recommend moving to a different host, or using SMTP instead.

 

[arturo.poveda]

Those functions are only insecure if they are used in an insecure way. That isn't the case for our software - it is used in a sensible and secure way in both cases.

Swift Mailer is by far a much more superior library for handling email transport and related matters than Zend, and one that is actively developed by a hugely active open source community.

Quite simply, if you are unable to get those functions enabled, we'd recommend moving to a different host, or using SMTP instead.

Dear,
I have my resource hosted in Cuba; according to regulations I can only stay in servers located in the national territory.
I know that XenForo uses the functions in a secure way, but the service providers disable it to avoid that any user makes a bad use of the function in the server.
If I use SMTP configuration then the transport will be managed from the strean_socket_client function, also disabled.

Do you have any idea?
Thank you.

 

[Chris D]

The service provider must re-enable those functions. They are requirements of using email in the software.