Request: Fix class-phpmailer to support SSL connections

Please change class-phpmailer in wp-includes to support Google Apps SSL email. In version 2.63, this starts at line 536 and reads:

if(strstr($hosts[$index], ":"))
                list($host, $port) = explode(":", $hosts[$index]);
            else
            {
                $host = $hosts[$index];
                $port = $this->Port;
            }

To make it work for Google Apps, it has to support pulling the port off the end, but also allow for ssl:// at the start of the host name because ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 is what works to connect. So here’s what you change it to:

$i=strrpos($hosts[$index], ":");
    if($i > 0) {
        $host = substr($hosts[$index],0,$i);
        $port = substr($hosts[$index],$i+1,strlen($hosts[$index])-$i);
    }
    else
    {
        $host = $hosts[$index];
        $port = $this->Port;
    }

Then you can use the wp-mail-smtp plugin to enable SMTP over ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 and it just works.

HTH,
Bret