[Tutor] The use of MailDir for a mail server

[alex gigh]

Hi;

I am still trying to write a mail server in Python... I decided that instead 
of going for the simple option of creating a file for each user and append 
each new message to this file, I will use "MailDir"... the problem is... I 
searched the web to find an example on how I could use this (my program is 
going to be a simple mail server with pre-defined 2 or 3 users.... ) but 
couldn't find anything useful. Can someone give me an example of :

1) how I can create these maildirs

2) if i need to put a new message in there... how do I copy a new file in 
there

3) and finally, when delivering messages, how do I get the text from the 
possibly several different files

Also... where exactly can I find the source code for the python libraries 
(namely smtp and rfc822) because I'm not allowed to use these...

Many thanks for your time

Alex

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