Re: ANN: Basil -- Internet Message (email) and MIME library for Ada v 1.0

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On Jul 22, 6:01 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Wow, this looks quite professional! Are you planning to merge your
> library into AdaCore's Ada Web Server (http://libre.adacore.com/aws),
> which already includes an SMTP client and server but apparently lacks
> the powerful mail handling capabilities of your library?

Hi Ludovic.

I hadn't considered merging with AWS. It seems mostly focused on RFC
2821 (SMTP) and you actually wouldn't need MIME in an RFC 2821 MTA,
nor would you need SMTP in an MUA (or anything designed to run as a
client to an MTA like a mailing list server). Where Basil could
complement AWS is with its RFC 2822 structured header parsers, which
an MTA would need.

Probably the best way to do it would be to make a glue package that
can translate AWS header objects into Basil header objects, so you can
use the structured header parsers, and then back again. I don't think
that would be very difficult and I could probably get that in the next
release.