Re: [web-devel] Sending email

I've written a module in Yesod for email[1], but it doesn't actually rely on any Yesod features, so could be factored out easily. I've also written a sample program[2] to go along with it. The main feature is to be able to easily generate multi-part emails. It also includes some code to send an email via createProcess/sendmail. If people like this and would like to see it released outside of Yesod, I can easily do so. Jeremy: It seems strange that SMTPClient uses a String to represent the message body. My module uses a lazy ByteString. I suppose you could always just do a Lazy.Char8.unpack to get the results from my module into SMTPClient. I like the idea of using markdown, I might try that in the future. As far as the templating, I'm not even touching that one: Yesod.Mail deals exlusively with lazy ByteStrings, and you can generate those however you see fit. Michael [1] http://github.com/snoyberg/yesod/blob/master/Yesod/Mail.hs http://github.com/snoyberg/yesod/blob/master/Yesod/Mail.hs[2] http://github.com/snoyberg/yesod/blob/master/mail.hs On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Clint Moore wrote:

I know it probably sounds terrible, but we've gotten away with using runInteractiveProcess + sendmail for all of our email. So far it has worked pretty well.

That said, if you end up writing such a thing, we would be interested in testing it.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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Hey all, I'm wondering what people do in general for sending email, especially from web apps. So far, I've written some basic modules in my apps that wrap around the sendmail executable on the system. Are there packages on Hackage that people would recommend? As long as I'm bringing this up, I think I nice email system would offer built in support for creating multipart messages. Bonus points would be to automatically create a text/plain version from an HTML version. If no one knows of prior art on this, I might try to implement it as a module in Yesod. Michael _______________________________________________ web-devel mailing list web-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/web-devel