On 17 Aug 2005, at 10:46, Dries Buytaert wrote:
Anyone with a mail background that would like to investigate http:// drupal.org/node/28604 ?
The idea is to create a mail.inc for core that implements a mail queue, as well as provides common functionality such as converting HTML to text.
It would be a centralized building block for modules like notify.module, project.module, subscription.module, simplenews.module, etc.
Lots of people showed interest in working on this, though as far as I know no one stepped forward to take a lead. I suggest someone creates a _minimal_ mail.inc first. As soon that is in place, everyone can submit patches to extend the mail queue functionality. A minimal mail.inc implements a mail queue, an mail-function, a cron- function, and a setting to throttle the rate of outgoing mails. The mail-function' should have two modes: 'send mail later', 'send mail now'. Regardless of this mode, the accounting should be correct. We can worry about HTML-mail, embedding images, bounces in subsequent rounds. Please raise your hand if you commit to working on this in the next few weeks/days. Thanks. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/