[Haskell-cafe] Proposed change to mime-mail

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Erik Hesselink wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've found and solved a problem with mime-mail, and Michael Snoyman
> asked me to send a request for feedback to -cafe, so here goes.
> 
> In short, the issue is with address headers containing 'special'
> (non-ascii) characters. In mime-mail, these are automatically encoded
> according to RFC 2047. However, the email address part of an address
> header is not allowed to be encoded.
> 
> My patch adds 'from', 'to', 'cc' and 'bcc' fields to the Mail data
> type, and creates correct headers from these fields. This does make
> the Mail type a bit larger, so I've also added a smart constructor
> with initializes these fields with empty lists (only 'from' is
> required).
> 
> For more details, see my initial bug report [1] and my patches in the
> pull request [2].
> 
> If you have any comments on this change, please let me know.

+1

Erik
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