I am new to twisted, so I am still trying to grasp how to work with twisted in the first place. Right now, what I am trying to do, is to write some type of smtp proxy.

What I need is a program that will listen for SMTP connections, and will intercept the SMTP commands, so that I can, for example:

- choose from a list of smtp servers to proxy to, based on the from and to addresses (and maybe get this info from a database) - send the mail I am currently receiving to the elected proxy or deny the mail attempt entirely - do some other types of checking

Can anyone please guide me on how I can write such a program?

With regards

Ricardo Kirkner

PD: I have looked at some of the classes in twisted, but I just cannot make out which one is best for this. At first I have tried to use the portforward.Proxy class in order to write a simple proxy, but later on I found this would not let me choose to which server I want to connect to, but I was required to predefine the ip of the server. Later on I looked directly at the smtp.SMTP class and somehow got to manage a skeleton for my program, but I was stuck at not knowing how to forward the mail I was already receiving to the elected server. I also found the mail.MailService class, although I think this is a little too much for my purposes (but I am not sure for what this class is intended, since it also includes a pop3 and imap4 server, I think)