mail reader using haskell

Question

I was trying to create a mail reader application using haskell. I found HaskellNet library for the same. Unfortunately there is no documentation or tests. Anyone knows how to use this library?

Answer 1

I don't know where you got HaskellNet from, but if you look at the Hackage page for HaskellNet, there's Haddock documentation.

I've never used this library, so I can't speak from experience, but for example the functions defined in POP3 and SMTP seem pretty straightforward if you happen to know those protocols.

I don't think that library is meant as an end-user library with functions like mail :: Address -> Message -> IO (), although sendMail comes pretty close.

Although, from looking at the darcs source code repo, it looks like the package hasn't been developed since december 2006.