Simple SMTP server

John Abel jabel at plus.net
Thu Jun 9 09:53:32 EDT 2005


Jesse Noller wrote:

>Hello -
>
>I am looking at implementing a simple SMTP server in python - I know
>about the smtpd module, but I am looking for code examples/snippets as
>the documentation is sparse.
>
>The server I am looking at writing is really simple - it just needs to
>fork/thread appropriately for handling large batches of email, and all
>it has to do is write the incoming emails to the disk (no
>relaying/proxying/etc).
>
>If anyone has any good examples/recipes I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
>Thanks
>
>-jesse
>  
>
twisted.mail for a starting point, or Quotient which is an SMTP Server 
based on twisted.mail.

J



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