[Haskell-cafe] Re: MUA written in Haskell, and MTA in Haskell help?

[Shae Matijs Erisson]

Nils Anders Danielsson <nad at cs.chalmers.se> writes:

> I had the same thought yesterday, after an Emacs-Lisp session in which
> I was trying to get Gnus to do exactly what I wanted it to...

Yeah, same here. I use Gnus and it's nice, but occasionally I want to erase it
from the timestream.

> Out of curiosity, how much work would it take to write an easily
> configurable, decent MUA in Haskell? I don't know too much about MUAs,
> but I have a feeling that we already have quite a few libraries that
> are needed for the job: UIs (including HTML rendering...), plugins,
> various protocols, encryption...

It wouldn't be too hard. I'd suggest you start with Tuomo Valkonen's Riot[1]
and go for something like mutt.
I'm sure you could steal lots of useful code from Peter Simons' Postmaster[2].

Speaking of which, I've tried to use Postmaster for my own personal domain,
ScannedInAvian.com, but I've had various difficulties. Is anyone else using it
for their domain? I'd like to find anti-spam features that match those of
postfix, like greylisting, dns name checks, etc.

[1] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/riot/
[2] http://postmaster.cryp.to/
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