[Haskell-cafe] what is the status of haskell's mail libraries?

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Wed Dec 29 07:02:59 CET 2010


This looks very good, thank you! One comment: do you think it would be
possible to add a function for sending a mime-mail Mail datatype
directly? I see that you provide a wrapper around simpleMail in your
sendMimeMail function, but that won't always be sufficient.

Michael

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Robert Wills <wrwills at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've finally gotten around to doing an update to HaskellNet which
> provides along with some cleanups
> integration with mime-mail.  There is an example of its usage at:
>
> example/smtpMimeMail.hs
>
> in
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HaskellNet
>
> -Rob
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl <hjgtuyl at chello.nl> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:46:07 +0200, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just release mime-mail[1], which can construct multipart messages.
>>>
>>> Note, that this will not run on Windows, as it gives command
>>>  /usr/sbin/sendmail
>>
>> The sendmail feature will not work on Windows (and you're right, I
>> should document that more clearly). However, rendering of email
>> messages is completely cross-platform, and there was some talk of
>> getting either HaskellNet or SMTPClient to work with mime-mail, which
>> would allow direct sending of email via SMTP.
>>
>> Michael
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