PHPMailer and 1and1 / 1&1

[Oliver Georgi]

1and / 1&1 is a weird provider — but you have to deal with it. Too many people still hosting their site with them.

Yesterday I got a report by a user that 1and1's abuse prevention marks older class.phpmailer.php as infected and blocks the access to that important class. Be aware, in general nothing has changed inside the file, it is not injected … but you need an update. I have implemented the most current version of PHPMailer 5.2.8 this morning. Some not minor changes are necessary to get it running. In general all you have to do (sorry, could not test yet myself if this is enough — but should because PHP functions are not case-sensitive).

Before you start —PLEASE REMEMBER TO HAVE A WORKING BACKUP!!!

First download the new class folder

phpwcms-phpmailer-5.2.8.zip

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Unzip and replace include/inc_ext/phpmailer with the new one.

Then search all *.php files and replace

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inc_ext/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php

by

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inc_ext/phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php

This is more for experts now: If it is not working, then there is more work for you. The new PHPMailer class does not use CamelCase function names any longer — now it is camelCase. So change all ->FooFunction to ->fooFunction. See the commit link. This is what I did in the current release.

If you are not able to implement this yourself you can ask me (paid only).