Has anyone created a simple POP3 and SMTP server using TWISTED?
Zoo Keeper
candiazoo at attbi.com
Thu Mar 13 17:41:47 EST 2003
Thank you!
>On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:59:31PM +0000, Zoo Keeper wrote:
>> Or by any other means for that matter.
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>> I have two domains, one for me, one for my wife, for our web sites. I
>> want our own mail servers because our ISP has changed names 3 times in 4
>> years. Right now I am using a great product (my server is BeOS, btw)
>> but it is a trial version and the minimal license is for 50 users and
>> costs too much. So, I figured I'd write one in Python, but I wanted to
>> check here first to make sure it hasn't already been done so that I am
>> not wasting time researching and writing something that already
>> exists...
>>=20
>
> Twisted.Mail (one of the "dot" products) should be able to handle this. I
>currently use it to server POP3 (and POP3/ssl), but not to handle incoming
>SMTP (only because I already had postfix configured when I decided to start
>using it). The POP3 code is in good shape, but I can't speak to the SMTP
>portions. If they need work, it is probably only minor :)
>
> Setup is easy, just play around with 'mktap mail'. Feel free to mail me
>off-list (or the Twisted list) if you want any more specific pointers.
>
> Jp
>
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> up 10 days, 13:59, 4 users, load average: 0.32, 0.34, 0.25
>
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