From 8a1e1c05e64873e349f395013e07f6b1a20b19fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Hess <dan9186@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:53:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] moving examples to godocs

---
 README.md               | 64 +--------------------------------------
 postal_examples_test.go | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 postal_examples_test.go

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ca21944..c6a5599 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,69 +17,7 @@ go get github.com/gomicro/postal
 ```
 
 # Usage
-Compare a mail record
-
-```
-func testMailing(t *testing.T) {
-	host := "mailhost.com:25"
-	auth := smtp.PlainAuth("", "username", "password", "mailhost.com")
-	from := "dev@gomicro.io"
-	to := []string{"foo@bar.com"}
-	body := []byte{"hello world"}
-
-	p := postal.New()
-	SendMail := p.Mailer()
-
-	err := SendMail(host, auth, from, to, body)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Error(err.Error())
-	}
-
-	if p.Mailed() != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("expected 1 mailed, got %v mailed", p.Mailed())
-	}
-
-	records := p.MailRecords()
-	if len(records) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("expected 1 record, got %v record", len(records))
-	}
-
-	r := records[0]
-	if r.Host != host {
-		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", host, r.Host)
-	}
-
-	if r.From != from {
-		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", from, r.From)
-	}
-
-	if r.To != to {
-		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", to, r.To)
-	}
-
-	if r.Body != body {
-		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", string(body), string(r.Body))
-	}
-}
-```
-
-Get an error from sending an email
-
-```
-func testMailing(t *testing.T) {
-	auth := smtp.PlainAuth("", "username", "password", "mailhost.com")
-
-	p := postal.New()
-	p.SetError(fmt.Errorf("something's not quite right here"))
-	SendMail := p.Mailer()
-
-	err := SendMail("mailhost.com:25", auth, "dev@gomicro.io", []string{"foo@bar.com"}, []byte("Hello world"))
-
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Errorf("Expected error, and got nil")
-	}
-}
-```
+See the [examples](https://godoc.org/github.com/gomicro/postal#pkg-examples) within the docs for ways to use the library.
 
 # Versioning
 The library will be versioned in accordance with [Semver 2.0.0](http://semver.org).  See the [releases](https://github.com/gomicro/postal/releases) section for the latest version.  Until version 1.0.0 the libary is considered to be unstable.
diff --git a/postal_examples_test.go b/postal_examples_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ba7225
--- /dev/null
+++ b/postal_examples_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package postal_test
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net/smtp"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/gomicro/postal"
+)
+
+func ExamplePostal() {
+	// This would normally be provided by the testing function
+	var t *testing.T
+
+	host := "mailhost.com:25"
+	auth := smtp.PlainAuth("", "username", "password", "mailhost.com")
+	from := "dev@gomicro.io"
+	to := []string{"foo@bar.com"}
+	body := []byte("hello world")
+
+	p := postal.New()
+	SendMail := p.Mailer()
+
+	err := SendMail(host, auth, from, to, body)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error(err.Error())
+	}
+
+	if p.Mailed() != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 mailed, got %v mailed", p.Mailed())
+	}
+
+	records := p.MailRecords()
+	if len(records) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("expected 1 record, got %v record", len(records))
+	}
+
+	r := records[0]
+	if r.Host != host {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", host, r.Host)
+	}
+
+	if r.From != from {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", from, r.From)
+	}
+
+	if string(r.Body) != string(body) {
+		t.Errorf("expected %v, got %v", string(body), string(r.Body))
+	}
+}
+
+func ExamplePostal_error() {
+	// This would normally be provided by the testing function
+	var t *testing.T
+
+	auth := smtp.PlainAuth("", "username", "password", "mailhost.com")
+
+	p := postal.New()
+	p.SetError(fmt.Errorf("something's not quite right here"))
+	SendMail := p.Mailer()
+
+	err := SendMail("mailhost.com:25", auth, "dev@gomicro.io", []string{"foo@bar.com"}, []byte("Hello world"))
+
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("Expected error, and got nil")
+	}
+}