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Revised the README to provide clearer explanations of the library's origins, dependencies, and features. Added details on the small dependency footprint and enhanced SMTP Auth methods, and emphasized the concurrency-safe reuse of SMTP connections.
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<p align="center"><img src="./assets/gopher2.svg" width="250" alt="go-mail logo"/></p>
The main idea of this library was to provide a simple interface to sending mails for
The main idea of this library was to provide a simple interface for sending mails to
my [JS-Mailer](https://github.com/wneessen/js-mailer) project. It quickly evolved into a full-fledged mail library.
go-mail follows idiomatic Go style and best practice. It's only dependency is the Go Standard Library. It combines a lot
of functionality from the standard library to give easy and convenient access to mail and SMTP related tasks.
go-mail follows idiomatic Go style and best practice. It has a small dependency footprint by mainly relying on the
Go Standard Library and the Go extended packages. It combines a lot of functionality from the standard library to
give easy and convenient access to mail and SMTP related tasks.
Parts of this library (especially some parts of [msgwriter.go](msgwriter.go)) have been forked/ported from the
[go-mail/mail](https://github.com/go-mail/mail) respectively [go-gomail/gomail](https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail)
which both seems to not be maintained anymore.
In the early days, parts of this library (especially some parts of [msgwriter.go](msgwriter.go)) have been
forked/ported from [go-mail/mail](https://github.com/go-mail/mail) and respectively [go-gomail/gomail](https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail). In
the meantime most of the ported code has been refactored.
The smtp package of go-mail is forked from the original Go stdlib's `net/smtp` and then extended by the go-mail
team.
The smtp package of go-mail has been forked from the original Go stdlib's `net/smtp` package and has then been extended
by the go-mail team to fit the packages needs (more SMTP Auth methods, logging, concurrency-safety, etc.).
## Features
Some of the features of this library:
Here are some highlights of go-mail's featureset:
* [X] Only Standard Library dependant
* [X] Very small dependency footprint (mainly Go Stdlib and Go extended packages)
* [X] Modern, idiomatic Go
* [X] Sane and secure defaults
* [X] Explicit SSL/TLS support
* [X] Implicit StartTLS support with different policies
* [X] Makes use of contexts for a better control flow and timeout/cancelation handling
* [X] SMTP Auth support (LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD, XOAUTH2)
* [X] SMTP Auth support (LOGIN, PLAIN, CRAM-MD, XOAUTH2, SCRAM-SHA-1(-PLUS), SCRAM-SHA-256(-PLUS))
* [X] RFC5322 compliant mail address validation
* [X] Support for common mail header field generation (Message-ID, Date, Bulk-Precedence, Priority, etc.)
* [X] Reusing the same SMTP connection to send multiple mails
* [X] Concurrency-safe reusing the same SMTP connection to send multiple mails
* [X] Support for attachments and inline embeds (from file system, `io.Reader` or `embed.FS`)
* [X] Support for different encodings
* [X] Middleware support for 3rd-party libraries to alter mail messages