On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:26, Brad Knowles wrote:
There, I have to disagree. Both the web server and the mail server issues are complex enough that I don't believe it would be a good idea to try and re-invent this wheel. There are already enough bad web server and mail server implementations out there -- we don't need to make this situation worse.
Let's not discount the integration problems, which are a huge headache for newbies. I'm fairly certain that Twisted is the right approach for surfacing the web u/i to Mailman. The requirements are not overwhelming and fronting Mailman's u/i with Apache really doesn't buy us that much. We all agree that CGI sucks, and we could make that better with mod_python or some other such glue, but why go to the trouble?
Relying on Twisted for the incoming mail protocols is something I'm less certain about, although there is a lot of appeal to this approach. We could throw lots smarts into a Python port-25 listener, including global spam fighting and bounce processing. An approach like Exim + elspy affords some really cool possibilities. A bigger negative is that there's less precedence for proxying smtpd as there is for httpd, so it's harder to fit Mailman into the mix with an existing mail server.
-Barry