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[jberanek]

MIME::Lite has always been my favourite email sending module

[zoffixznet]

Wouldn't Email::Sender already take care of that usecase? As in, both are for sending mail.

Also, MIME::Lite is deprecated by its author, so if you're still using it, you should consider switching 😹

[zoffixznet]

I'm going to close this for the above reasons. If MIME::Lite provides some functionality not subsumed by Email::Send, please add that functionality into the list so potential module authors would have an idea of what to implement.

Thanks.

[jberanek]

Fair enough, didn't know about MIME::Lite deprecation, maybe I should look at Email::Sender

[jberanek]

Just had a look at Email::Sender ... it's documentation (and functionality?) compared to MIME::Lite makes me cry

[jonathanstowe]

There doesn't appear to be any Perl 6 module except Net::SMTP that can actually send e-mail.

The difference between e.g. Email::Sender and MIME::Lite is that MIME::Lite is somewhat monolithic in approach whereas Email::Sender is part of a suite of modules where the actual creation of the messages is delegated to something Email::MIME or similar. IMO this would be a better approach for a Perl 6 module to do similar.

[zoffixznet]

Just had a look at Email::Sender ... it's documentation (and functionality?) compared to MIME::Lite makes me cry

Doesn't MIME::Lite's "functionality" make mistakes such as revealing BCC addresses, for example?

In any case, instead of obsessing over Perl 5 and what module to "port," it's a worthwhile goal to think of a Perl 6 way of doing it. We have many constructs and idioms that Perl 5 lacks, so any thoughtless port's interface will be clunky.

[jonathanstowe]

Exactly 👍

[niner]

On Wednesday 05 October 2016 06:03:34 Zoffix Znet wrote: In any case, instead of obsessing over Perl 5 and what module to "port," it's a worthwhile goal to think of a Perl 6 way of doing it. We have many constructs and idioms that Perl 5 lacks, so any thoughtless port's interface will be clunky.

True in general. It cannot hurt to have a look at what mistakes were made on CPAN and what we learned from them. MIME::Lite was such a mistake. Email::Stuffer (based on Email::MIME but simplifying the simple case) is what we learned from it :)