Great post Mikel Thanks for you hard work - i'm excited to read more.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]> wrote: > OK everyone, so we finally have Mail merged into ActionMailer replacing out > TMail > This is for the 3.0 release, and not part of the 2.x tree. > I am the TMail maintainer and I decided this year to write a ruby email > handler, the Mail gem is my solution to this. > Mail takes a very object oriented approach to email. It conforms to RFCs as > closely as practical and parses the 0.5gb Trec and 2.5Gb Enron email/spam > database (about 500,000 emails) without crashing. > Anyone who has used TMail will appreciate things Mail does and you should > not have too much trouble moving over. The only thing you need to keep in > mind is that in mail, everything is an object, so you have to call :to_s to > get string values. Mail also has :decoded and :encoded methods for every > object which should help you out more. > Also, unlike ActionMailer's vendoring of TMail, Mail is a gem dependency, so > we can keep things up to date easily. > You can read about the Mail gem at: > http://lindsaar.net/2009/9/17/mail-tmail-the-future-of-ruby-email-handling > http://lindsaar.net/2009/10/28/new-mail-gem-released > http://lindsaar.net/2009/9/18/mail-and-bounced-emails > http://github.com/mikel/mail > The commit where Jeremy merged in my changes is at: > http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b27a3e8da39484d8a02d3b9c1e4dc3cb60ddcce7 > http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/71ffa760701d2240ece5f17b75df316611ecb3d0 > -- > http://lindsaar.net/ > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
