Clear interface for mail class

[Benedict Verheyen]

Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
<snip>
> 
> I would add a server class, maybe subclassing something in standard
> library, and add to it the 'send' method, so that sending a mail would
> be
> something like:
> 
> myserver = MyMailServer("mysmtpserver", "localhost", ) # this only
> needs to be done once, not for each mail
> 
> m = MyMail( subject, text, separate_emails = False, files=[],
> inline_files=[] ) # mail creation
> 
> myserver.send( m, from= "from_me at work", # mail sending
>                to = "to_ at work",
>                cc_to= None  )
> 
> Note that I put sender and destination senders in the send method, not
> as attributes  of the mail object. It makes more sense to me, and yopu
> can reuse
> the same object if you want to send the same mail to many addresses
> ( and/or via different servers ).
> 
> IN general, un case like yours I use a lot default parameters, as you
> did already. Having separate methods to setting specific part of an
> object only makes
> sens (to me) if you need  first to create an object and later change
> some of the attributes. Also, if you are just going to change the
> attributes, you do not
> need a method: just use the object.attribute = value syntax. If you
> are going to need later to do more complex thing, you can always
> transform your
> attribute in a property.


Thanks for the input guys

Cheers,
Benedict