Curl wrapper round two

[jdrewsen]

Den 19-06-2011 17:57, Jimmy Cao skrev:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:29 AM, jdrewsen <jdrewsen at nospam.com
> <mailto:jdrewsen at nospam.com>> wrote:
>
>     Very nice. A couple of things I believe would help:
>     1, Get rid of MailMessageData and use curl.onSend() and a delegate
>     that keeps a reference to the message. That way you don't have to
>     use the lower level Curl.set(infile/readfunction) calls as well.
>
>
> Ah, that makes it much better.
>
>     2, It would be nice if the static sendMail(...) function worked like
>     the Http/Ftp counterparts. They return a Result object that you can
>     change before performing the actual task. That way you can easily
>     set timeouts etc. If there shouldn't be support for async smtp then
>     this is probably not important though.
>
>
> There should be support for async SMTP.
> The problem is this:
> SMTP.sendMailAsync(...).connectTimeout(dur!"seconds"(60)).localPort(25).?
>
> byLine, byChunk, etc don't make much sense there.
>
> I think it would be better to get rid of the static sendMail function,
> and write a performAsync method.
> I'm not sure though.
> Something like this:
> https://gist.github.com/1034433

Maybe i doesn't make sense to provide the async interface at all? Users 
needing to do it async could just as well create a delegate and call 
spawn themselves.

/Jonas