[Haskell-cafe] Re: Should Yesod.Mail be a separate package?

Hi Robert, I did look at HaskellNet a few months ago. It looked big and undocumented so I guess I got scared away. What I'd be interested in is something with the simplicity of the PHP mail command (or perhaps the phpmailer package). I dislike PHP as a programming language but it does basic web functions like outgoing email fairly well. Perhaps HaskellNet just needs more documentation and examples? Kevin On Oct 17, 10:05 am, Robert Wills wrote:

Last summer I put cabalized HaskellNet (written by Jun Mukai for a GSOC) (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HaskellNet) and uploaded it to hackage.  I put myself down as a maintainer but I haven't done much maintaining.

HaskellNet also does multipart mime and base64 stuff as well as imap and pop access.  I haven't looked at Michael's package yet -- I'll have a look this morning to compare.

I've been meaning to add try to tls support to HaskellNet.

I don't have any huge attachment to HaskellNet so I'd be happy to just help to migrate the useful bits of it to some larger official email package.

-Rob

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Kevin Jardine wrote:

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Hi Michael,

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Last time I checked Hackage for email libraries I could find some basic SMTP systems but nothing very recent or robust.

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Practically every web app needs to send email, so I think that a robust and well maintained email package would be very useful.

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I know you have many other projects going at the minute, but if you had a chance to create a stand alone email package, I'd be interested in trying it out.

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I've been working on a web app engine that combines Heist from Snap and several of the WAI packages with an object store system I've developed myself (and will release on Hackage at some point). Email was a missing piece and it sounds like your package could fill the gap nicely.

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Kevin

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On Oct 17, 8:11 am, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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Hey all,

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I wrote a simple email module in Yesod[1] that handles such things as multipart messages and Base64 encoding. It's still missing some features (multipart/alternative, for instance), but it can be useful for throwing together emails. It's currently part of the yesod package, but I'm going to be moving it to a separate package to free me up to make breaking API changes more frequently.

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As of right now, I'm just going to move it into the yesod-auth package (also being split off from the main yesod package), and therefore it will still have all the dependencies on Yesod. My question is whether people would find this package useful outside the scope of Yesod. There are no dependencies from this module onto any Yesod-specific stuff, so this separation could easily be done. I just don't feel like adding another package to maintain if no one is interested.

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So if anyone wants this offered up as a separate package, and/or has any API suggestions, please let me know.

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Michael

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