Email can be a complicated topic. We need to address the message format itself (multipart MIME), the content (both HTML and plain), and transmission. There is both the sending/rendering side, as well as the receiving/parsing side.
There are a number of packages on Hackage already that provide good facilities for sending email. The goal of this group is to improve the quality and interoperability of these libraries.
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