Python MTA

[Paul Wright]

In article <mailman.1023489912.30571.python-list at python.org>,
David LeBlanc <whisper at oz.net> wrote:
>Has anyone developed a simple/stupid Mail Transfer Agent using Python
>that does't rely on any external mail agents (and thus would be
>platform independent)?
>
>What I have in mind is an app that sits between my mail client (outlook
>(dev/null=flames)) and, at most, a few mail hosts. It would act like a
>client to those mail hosts and as a host to outlook. The idea is to be
>able to insert a spam filter like ASK (or something better?).

You don't want an SMTP MTA then, you want a filtering POP3 proxy.

I have the beginnings of such a thing in Python but my motivation to
finish it kind of went away when SpamPal was released:
http://www.twinlobber.org.uk/spampal/

It is not written in Python and the source is not open, but I'm told it
works well.

Should I ever finish my proxy I'll let this group know, I should think.

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