<?php 

require_once('../PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php'); 

<?php 

function mail($recipient, $subject, $message, $header){

        $recList = split(',', $recipient);

        $mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch

        $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

        try {

          $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication

          $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";                 // sets the prefix to the servier

          $mail->Host       = "smtp.gmail.com";      // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server

          $mail->Port       = 465;                   // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server

          $mail->Username   = "rainer@example.com";  // GMAIL username

          $mail->Password   = "password";            // GMAIL password

          $mail->AddReplyTo('barbara@example.net', 'ReplyToMe');

          foreach ($recList as $value) {

            $mail->AddAddress($value, $value);

          }

          $mail->SetFrom('barbara@example.net', 'myDMS');

          $mail->Subject = $subject;

          $mail->Body = $message;

          $mail->Send();

        } catch (phpmailerException $e) {

          echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer

        } catch (Exception $e) {

          echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!

        }

    } 

<?php 

return (mail($recipient->getEmail(), $this->replaceMarker($subject), $this->replaceMarker($message), $header) ? 0 : -1); 

<?php 

return ($this->mail($recipient->getEmail(), $this->replaceMarker($subject), $this->replaceMarker($message), $header) ? 0 : -1);