Use a more flexible curl function to make HTTP requests.

[dead/halcyon.git] / src / Mail.hs

diff --git a/src/Mail.hs b/src/Mail.hs
index 2b5445c4ddcbd96020ddb2010b035db1235699d7..2da56639667b4b2b63d387aaab601934091f5f7e 100644 (file)
--- a/src/Mail.hs
+++ b/src/Mail.hs
@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
+-- |Email functions and data types.
+
 module Mail
 where
 
 import Control.Concurrent
-import Control.Concurrent.MVar
 import Control.Exception (evaluate)
 import Data.List (intercalate)
+import Data.Time (formatTime, getZonedTime)
 import System.Exit
+import System.Locale (defaultTimeLocale, rfc822DateFormat)
 import System.Process
-import System.IO
+import System.IO (hClose, hGetContents, hPutStr)
+
 
 type Header = String
 
+-- |A crude model of an RFC821 email message.
 data Message = Message { headers :: [Header],
                          subject :: String,
                          body    :: String,
@@ -18,6 +23,17 @@ data Message = Message { headers :: [Header],
                          to      :: String }
              deriving (Eq)
 
+-- |The default headers attached to each message.
+-- The MIME junk is needed for UTF-8 to work properly.
+-- Note that your mail server should support the 8BITMIME extension.
+default_headers :: [Header]
+default_headers = ["MIME-Version: 1.0",
+                   "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8",
+                   "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"]
+
+-- |Showing a message will print it in roughly RFC-compliant
+-- form. This form is sufficient for handing the message off to
+-- sendmail.
 instance Show Message where
     show m =
         concat [ if (length (headers m) == 0) then "" else (intercalate "\n" (headers m)) ++ "\n",
@@ -27,7 +43,29 @@ instance Show Message where
                  "\n",
                  (body m) ]
 
-        
+
+
+-- |Pad a string on the left with zeros until the entire string has
+-- length n.
+pad_left :: String -> Int -> String
+pad_left str n
+         | n < (length str) = str
+         | otherwise = (replicate num_zeros '0') ++ str
+    where num_zeros = n - (length str)
+
+
+
+-- | Constructs a 'String' in RFC822 date format for the current
+--   date/time.
+rfc822_now :: IO String
+rfc822_now = do
+  date <- getZonedTime
+  return $ formatTime defaultTimeLocale rfc822DateFormat date
+
+
+
+-- |Takes a message as an argument, and passes it to the system's
+-- sendmail binary.
 sendmail :: Message -> IO (String, String, ExitCode)
 sendmail message = do
   let sendmail_args = ["-f",
@@ -42,9 +80,9 @@ sendmail message = do
   errm <- newEmptyMVar
   errs <- hGetContents errh
 
-  forkIO $ hPutStr inh (show message) >> hClose inh
-  forkIO $ evaluate (length outs) >> putMVar outm ()
-  forkIO $ evaluate (length errs) >> putMVar errm ()
+  _ <- forkIO $ hPutStr inh (show message) >> hClose inh
+  _ <- forkIO $ evaluate (length outs) >> putMVar outm ()
+  _ <- forkIO $ evaluate (length errs) >> putMVar errm ()
 
   readMVar outm
   readMVar errm
@@ -53,6 +91,9 @@ sendmail message = do
   return (outs, errs, ec)
 
 
+-- |The 'sendmail' function returns a three-tuple of its outputs,
+-- errors, and exit codes.  This function pretty-prints one of those
+-- three-tuples.
 print_sendmail_result :: (String, String, ExitCode) -> IO ()
 print_sendmail_result (outs, errs, ec) = do
     case ec of