How to use asyncore with SSL?

[breamoreboy at gmail.com]

On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 11:25:58 PM UTC, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've been trying to use the secure smtpd module from
> https://github.com/bcoe/secure-smtpd, but the SSL support seems to be
> fundamentally broken.  That module simply wraps a socket and then
> expects to use it in the normal way via asyncore.
> 
> Of course that fails the first time an ssl-wrapped-socket's send or
> recv method raises SSLWantReadError or SSLWantWriteError.  Those
> exceptions aren't handled and it crashes.
> 
> That makes the SSL support pretty much useless.
> 
> I'm trying to fix that, but I can't find any information or
> documentation about using asyncore with SSL.
> 
> Alternatively, a pointer to a simpler smtp server library that
> supports SSL would be great. The use of asyncore and multiprocessing
> process pools by this module is _way_ overkill for my needs and
> results in something that 1) doesn't work, and 2) can't be debugged.
> 
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I haven't tried it myself but I've just stumbled across this https://github.com/aio-libs/aiosmtpd.

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Mark Lawrence.