Hello list,

I'm new to twisted and to python in general, so still deep in the learning process.
Please forgive any faulty assumptions you'll find in this post :)

I'm trying to accomplish to the following task: realize a tool that acts as a proxy between the SMTP domain and the 'objects' domain. That is: a daemon that listens for SMTP connections (relayed sessions from Postfix) and bundles everything that belongs to a single session (envelope sender, envelope recipients, headers, body) into an object (it will probably become a JSON one day, not decided yet). The aim is to allow further processing (es. publishing to a queue) of a self-contained item.

My (draft) implementation can be reached at http://pastebin.com/mbRztuid

My main concerns are:
1) am I using the right classes? My implementation leverages twisted.mail.smtp, is this correct?
2) I've overridden smtp.SMTP._cbToValidate; I really don't like this very much (I'd like to leave the protocol untouched) but it's the only way I've come up with (after several days of experiments :) ) to have one single payload down the line (in smtp.SMTP.do_DATA), and not one copy of the message for every single recipient. May this have bad consequences?
3) what do you think about the overall approach? could it have been done differently/better?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Fabio