Python smtp server

[Brendan Leong See]

"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:

> >>>>> "BLS" == Brendan Leong See <s003935 at student.uq.edu.au> writes:
>
>     BLS> A simple smtpd is all I need, it would be great if you could
>     BLS> make it available and post a link. Thanks.
>
> Okay, here's the deal.  smtpd.py will be included with Python 2.1,
> probably in the standard library (there's precedent: the standard
> library already contains servers and smtpd.py can be extended through
> subclassing).
>
> In the meantime, you can get the current snapshot of the file from
>
>     http://www.wooz.org/barry/software/Code/smtpd.py
>
> There's a bit of explanation in the comments of the file, but little
> other documentation ("noooobody expects the Hacker documentation!" :).
> smtpd.py is mostly intended to be a front-end proxy to a real smtp
> server, as should be evident in the PureProxy subclass.  You'll see
> some of the things I'm exploring with Mailman in the MailmanProxy
> subclass.  See the TODO list in the file for things that aren't
> implemented.
>
> Enjoy,
> -Barry

Cheers