Question

How can one handle email related communications pragmatically in Erlang/OTP?
Using bash, python or Perl scripts, its possible for one to send out emails. However, in Erlang, i have not yet found an Application or built in function dedicated to sending and/or receiving emails on behalf of other applications.

In yaws, there is a mail application located in the applications path of the web server.However, on the yaws home page, there is no documentation dedicated to this application. In Nitrogen Web framework, i have found nothing yet useful as far as email protocols are concerned.

If any one knows of a library which i can use for sending and/or receiving mails pragmatically, could please direct me. Also there could be unofficial implementations as well that i do not know of.
thanks, in advance

Answer 1

I’ve been successfully using smtp_fsm.erl for sending emails (not exactly this version, but this one is publicly accessible).

Quick search showed some other smtp- and email-related packages, but I don’t have experience with any of these.

• https://github.com/Vagabond/gen_smtp
• https://github.com/archaelus/esmtp
• https://github.com/tonyg/erlang-smtp