From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T04:52:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code update

On 4/18/06, tsuraan@tsuraan.net <tsuraan@tsuraan.net> wrote:
>
> One project I'd recommend, in case any more ideas are needed, is a
> python-grade email parsing library.  At work, we do a lot of work with
> email handling, so I just can't get away from python.  At a bare
> minimum, an email parsing library should be able to decode all the
> email encodings (base64, quoted-printable, etc), and convert the
> encoded header information (the way that unicode headers are converted
> into ascii) into their native formats.  Other goodies, such as being
> able to read an mmap'd email rather than a string would be really nice
> :)

Somewhat related to this, I think it is entirely too hard to send
emails in Ruby. If you have a big Rails app and all that comes with
that you can use ActiveMailer, but from what I could see it was too
much for just a small app. Here is some idea of what I would like:

require 'email'

Email.send(:to=>'yoohoo@somewhere.com', :from=>'me@here.com',
subject=>'Hi there buddy', msg=>'How are you doing?')

This should try its best to just work, but if necessary there could be
a YAML file in the HOMEDIR specifying the MTA to use, etc.

If there is already something like this which I have missed, please
let me know. Or maybe ActiveMailer could be made easier to use
stand-alone.

Ryan