How to close Smtp connection in SwiftMailer

Question

I use SwiftMailer to send emails from a gearman worker process. I\'m using the Swift_SmtpTransport class to send emails.

The problem is that if this wor

Answer 1

When pipe is broken $mailer->getTransport()->stop() will fail as well. And due to this error transport cannot be stopped. The workaround is

// Let's try to send an email.
$tries = 3;
while ($tries--) {
    try {
        $sent = $this->mailer->send($message);
        break;
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        // Connection problems
        // @see https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer/issues/490
        try {
            // Try to stop
            $this->mailer->getTransport()->stop();
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            // Got Exception while stopping transport.
            // We have to set _started to 'false' manually, because due to an exception it is 'true' now.
            $t = $this->mailer->getTransport();
            $reflection = new \ReflectionClass($t);
            $prop = $reflection->getProperty('_started');
            $prop->setAccessible(true);
            $prop->setValue($t, false);
            $prop->setAccessible(false);
        }
    }
}