From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-07-23T12:14:49+09:00
Subject: Re: "Name my HTML E-mail lib" contest

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:22:51 -0400, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Use the MIME namespace, IMO. MIME::Mail, MIME::MultipartMail, or
>>MIME::Mail::Multipart or something like that.
> 
> 
> On further consideration, I think -- I haven't played with it
> seriously for porting, yet -- that your library implements *part* of
> MIME::Tools from Perl -- you may want to look at that to get an idea,
> but I do think that my original idea holds merit: MIME is the right
> namespace for this.

Interesting.  The code currently returns the complete E-mail object: 
headers followed by the multipart content.  Maybe I should split this 
out, so that there is a class that returns only the MIME part; another 
"wrapper" class can combine this with the headers to make the complete 
text for mailing.

The lib I would release, then, would just be the multipart-generating 
code. It could be bundled with some example or test code that shows how 
to generate the headers (which is essentially trivial, anyway) and 
combine the results to get a complete file.

I'm tending toward  MIME::MultipartAlternative.  Once the headers are 
removed, I'm not sure there is anything mail-specific about the body 
(but I'd have to go poke around some RFCs to be sure).

I'll  look at MIME::Tools and see if it maps to anything there.

Thanks for the suggestion!

James


> 
> -austin