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PEAR's Mail package defines an interface for implementing mailers under the PEAR hierarchy. It also provides supporting functions useful to multiple mailer backends. Currently supported backends include: - PHP's native `mail()` function - sendmail - SMTP This package also provides a [RFC 822](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822) email address list validation utility class. Use Mail in combination with [Mail\_Mime](http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime) to send HTML emails or emails with attachments - have a look at the [example](http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail-mime.example.php). Installation ------------ [](#installation) ### PEAR [](#pear) ``` $ pear install mail ``` ### Composer [](#composer) ``` $ composer require pear/mail ``` Links ----- [](#links) HomepageSource codeIssue tracker[http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package\_name\[\]=Mail](http://pear.php.net/bugs/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=Mail)Unit test statusPackagist ### Health Score 49 — FairBetter than 95% of packages Maintenance26 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity58 Moderate usage in the ecosystem Community40 Growing community involvement Maturity63 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor2 2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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