[erlang-questions] Erlang SMTP Client?

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 10/11/2011 07:21 PM, David Mercer wrote:
> On Monday, October 10, 2011, Richard Carlsson wrote:
> 
>> On 10/10/2011 11:30 PM, David Mercer wrote:
>>> I must admit, I am
>> surprised
>>> there is no SMTP client in the standard distribution.  You would
>> think that
>>> would be a fairly common communication protocol...
>>
>> Often, what you want is more than just SMTP. If there are some network
>> issues (or your mail server is simply down) at the time your program
>> tries to send the mail, you usually want your program to still be able
>> to regard the mail as sent and carry on. This means that the mail needs
>> to be persistently stored on disk in a spool area and that the MTA
>> regularly tries to send any outgoing mail that's been spooled, so it
>> will eventually be on its way once the problem is resolved. That's why
>> we like to rely on sendmail instead. But it all depends on the needs of
>> your application.
> 
> Having an SMTP module would enable you to write in Erlang what you need for
> storing messages for later delivery, if that happened to be your
> requirement.
> 
> What do people think of an EEP to add SMTP support?  I'm thinking I might be
> the only person who needs it, since Erlang is, like, 100 years old and it's
> not in there yet.  Is there a silent majority secretly hoping for SMTP in
> the next release of Erlang, or am I standing alone on this hill?

There are SMTP modules. Why do you need them to be in the standard
distribution? You can just use them as a dependency.

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
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