SMTP server class ??

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "SK" == Sheila King <sheila at spamcop.net> writes:

    SK> I looked at the current 2.1 Module docs online here
    SK> http://www.python.org/doc/current/modindex.html

    SK> and see no mention of it?

Sadly, I've never had the time to write up documentation for it.

    SK> I've taken a cursory glance from the code I downloaded off of
    SK> your site last night. It seems to be heavy on the
    SK> Unix-isms. Does it run on win32 platforms?

Dunno.  Never tried it.  I'm pretty sure that asyncore/asynchat works
on Windows, but it's possible that some of the socket machinery is too
Unix specific.  I don't know what it would take to port it though.

    SK> Heh...I'm not expecting something extremely standards
    SK> compliant.

Actually, RFC 821 specifies a "minimal compliant server" and that's
what smtpd.py implements.  It /only/ accepts the minimal commands (I
forget what they are), and hasn't been updated to RFC 2821.
    
    SK> Actually, all I really want, is something to act
    SK> as smtp.localhost so that I can set my mail client up to send
    SK> mail to 127.0.0.1, and have the raw messages written to a
    SK> file.

That should be easy to do.  Of course, it'd also be easy to configure
a classic MTA to do something like this.
    
    SK> Then I will take a script to pipe them to this smtp server I'm
    SK> having to use temporarily (I want to set the From on the SMTP
    SK> envelope, so that I can use my usual "from" address...ISPs can
    SK> be so restrictive...been without my usual DSL for over 60
    SK> hours now, and using temporary dialup with port 25 blocked. :(

Ug.

    SK> If I have time this afternoon, I might try a hand at writing
    SK> myself something simple. I'm just being cautious, as I've not
    SK> done any sockets programming up to this point.

Gotcha.  I think the framework in smtpd.py should be fairly easy to
customize, if you're familiar enough with the asyncore/asynchat
modules.

-Barry