[ic] email options

[Mike Heins]

Quoting David Christensen (david at endpoint.com):
> 
> On Mar 13, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Davor Ocelic wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:52:18 -0500
> > David Christensen <david at endpoint.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Peter wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 03/12/2009 07:21 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> >>>> I'm trying to figure out where to add support for the proper
> >>>> encoding of headers and body encoding, and I see there are a
> >>>> number of possible
> >>>> candidates:
> >>>>
> >>>> email.tag
> >>>> email_raw.tag
> >>>> Vend::Email::tag_mail
> >>>> Vend::Email::tag_mime_lite_email
> >>>>
> >>>> ...and probably some more I have missed.  Are these all active/
> >>>> supported methods of email sending?  Are there any that I'm
> >>>> missing? Is there an overview of what each is intended to do and
> >>>> how they differ?
> >>>
> >>> Davor once worked on an Email.pm file which everything was supposed
> >>> to channel through.  It would probably be a good idea to finish
> >>> that work up, route all the other various email tags and functions
> >>> through that, then you just have to update the one file.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sounds good.  Based on my inspection of the history, this appears to
> >> be the Vend::Email module, so I'll see about making the various
> >> *.tag just be RoutineMaps to the corresponding routine in  
> >> Vend::Email.
> >
> > That's right. Stefan was also involved in the work, and he committed
> > the Email.pm module.
> >
> > I already created a diff that adjusts all email sending functions
> > in IC (including tags) -- the patch should be sitting in Racke's
> > archive, it just wasn't applied before email header encoding was
> > finished.
> 
> 
> Here's a first pass at the email header encoding, using the Encode  
> module instead of MIME::EncWords.  Review appreciated:
> 

I would prefer no more "use Encode" until we have resolved all its
issues.

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