PHP Mail

I wanted to implement SMTP mail sending with authentication for some applications. For that I have installed pear/Mail on my server, its documentation is here. Using that I have written the following hard-coded function to assist me. I have used this in pmwiki and textpattern.

<?php

ini_set("include_path", '/home/ekvastra/php:' . ini_get("include_path") ); 
require_once "Mail.php";

function ShortCircuit($from, $to, $subject, $body)
{ 
/*
	$from = "Web Master <webmaster@example.com>";
	$to = "Nobody <nobody@example.com>";
	$subject = "Test email using PHP SMTP with SSL\r\n\r\n";
	$body = "This is a test email message";
*/

	$host = "ssl://server10.hostingraja.org";
	$port = "465";
	$username = "do-not-reply@ekvastra.in";
	$password = "**** (really long auto generated nonsense password) ";

	$headers = array ('From' => $from,
	  'To' => $to,
	  'Subject' => $subject);
	$smtp = Mail::factory('smtp',
	  array ('host' => $host,
		'port' => $port,
		'auth' => true,
		'username' => $username,
		'password' => $password));

	$mail = $smtp->send($to, $headers, $body);

	/* 
		if (PEAR::isError($mail)) {
		  echo("<p>" . $mail->getMessage() . "</p>");
		} else {
		  echo("<p>Message successfully sent!</p>");
		} 
	*/
}
?>