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.
>>=20
>> 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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