[web-devel] Sending email

[Michael Snoyman]

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 <cmoore at wamboli.com> 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 <michael at snoyman.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
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