sending prettier system messages is easy
I’ve always liked Email::MIME::Kit, and I just keep liking it more. This week, I wrote a Markdown-based assembler class. Assemblers turn the templates, stash, and other configuration into the MIME message. Right now, they’re sort of a mess, but they’re really, really useful.
The Markdown assembler is sort of the non-toy version of my smarkmail program. You can produce a kit that contains only a minimal manifest and a file written in Markdown and EMKit will produce a multipart/alternative message using the Markdown as the plaintext. It renders the Markdown into HTML (using Text::Markdown and wraps that in a static wrapper you provide.
Now if we want to make a system transaction send a pretty email, we only need
to write a small amount of Markdown and we get a nicely formatted, colorful,
just-like-the-rest-of-our-site email that looks great in mutt too. I see
much prettier system messages in our future.