[Haskell-cafe] Re: Should Yesod.Mail be a separate package?

[Robert Wills]

Last summer I put cabalized HaskellNet (written by Jun Mukai for a
GSOC) (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HaskellNet)
and uploaded it to hackage.  I put myself down as a maintainer but I
haven't done much maintaining.

HaskellNet also does multipart mime and base64 stuff as well as imap
and pop access.  I haven't looked at Michael's package yet -- I'll
have a look this morning
to compare.

I've been meaning to add try to tls support to HaskellNet.

I don't have any huge attachment to HaskellNet so I'd be happy to just
help to migrate the useful bits of it to some larger official email
package.

-Rob

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Kevin Jardine <kevinjardine at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Last time I checked Hackage for email libraries I could find some
> basic SMTP systems but nothing very recent or robust.
>
> Practically every web app needs to send email, so I think that a
> robust and well maintained email package would be very useful.
>
> I know you have many other projects going at the minute, but if you
> had a chance to create a stand alone email package, I'd be interested
> in trying it out.
>
> I've been working on a web app engine that combines Heist from Snap
> and several of the WAI packages with an object store system I've
> developed myself (and will release on Hackage at some point). Email
> was a missing piece and it sounds like your package could fill the gap
> nicely.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Oct 17, 8:11 am, Michael Snoyman <mich... at snoyman.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I wrote a simple email module in Yesod[1] that handles such things as
>> multipart messages and Base64 encoding. It's still missing some
>> features (multipart/alternative, for instance), but it can be useful
>> for throwing together emails. It's currently part of the yesod
>> package, but I'm going to be moving it to a separate package to free
>> me up to make breaking API changes more frequently.
>>
>> As of right now, I'm just going to move it into the yesod-auth package
>> (also being split off from the main yesod package), and therefore it
>> will still have all the dependencies on Yesod. My question is whether
>> people would find this package useful outside the scope of Yesod.
>> There are no dependencies from this module onto any Yesod-specific
>> stuff, so this separation could easily be done. I just don't feel like
>> adding another package to maintain if no one is interested.
>>
>> So if anyone wants this offered up as a separate package, and/or has
>> any API suggestions, please let me know.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> [1]http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/yesod/0.5.4/doc/html/Yeso...
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