Authenticate to Gmail in PHP without including Mail.php

[bobcowher]

I'm looking for a way to authenticate to Gmail's mail server with PHP without using "Mail::factory" or needing to include "Mail.php". Is there a way to do this?

[trq]

Mail::Factory and Mail.php are not a standard part of PHP. So, the answer is yes. Assuming the code within Mail.php and/or the code within the class produced by calling Mail::Factory is capable of doing so.

[devWhiz]

Personally, I use IMAP to authenticate Gmail in my scripts..

 

  $imapHost = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX';
  $openStream = imap_open($imapHost, $gmailAddress, $gmailPassword);