Thanks, that makes sense. Out of curiosity, which one do you use with
HsOpenSSL?
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Donn Cave
quoth David Escobar
No explicit mention is made anywhere in the documentation about TLS or even SSL, so perhaps not? Some libraries I've come across specifically mention that they don't support TLS or SSL. Being relatively new to this part of Haskell, what is the most standard library the community uses for email that supports modern protocols such as those used by GMail? Thanks.
I'm not going to guess what the community is up to, but it seems to me like the least novel way to get there would be an SSL connection to port 465, using HsOpenSSL, and use the library you were already using for SMTP.
I do that, essentially, though with home rolled stuff for various not very interesting reasons. So I haven't tried these two packages, but I can assure you that the principle works with gmail.
If your SMTP package won't accept some kind of generic I/O channel and insists on making and using its own socket connection, then you'll need something else. Ideally, it would provide pure functions for SMTP parsing and protocol interpretation, and you could do the I/O stuff yourself via whatever channel you wish, but that pure/io structural division seems surprisingly rare among Haskell network application packages.
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