[wp-hackers] Lost Password

[Peter Westwood]

Ron Guerin wrote:
> Denis de Bernardy wrote:
> 
>> on free.fr, I recall mail and chmod were removed entirely (this may have
>> changed since). They replaced it with a custom function with a different
>> name on the one side, and a server side script that automatically chmoded
>> stuff as required on the other.
> 
> If they've removed the function entirely, then I presume that free.fr
> users could put something like this in their wp-config.php
> 
>   if(!function_exists('mail'))
>   {
>     function mail(....
>   }
> 
> and after doing the same for chmod they could use an unaltered WP and
> not have to worry about extra work for upgrades.
> 

Or the user could just install wp-phpmailer [1] which takes advantage of 
the pluggable-functions in wp 1.5.1 and later and replaces wp_mail() 
with a full SMTP implementation to talk directly to an SMTP server

1: http://www.coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/28/plugin-wpphpmailer/

westi
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Peter Westwood
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