At 11:06 PM 11/26/2002 +0100, Bas A.Schulte wrote: >On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 09:01 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: .... >3. I install qmail on the various servers, and use that to push messages >around. This'll take me a week or so (hopefully) to get it running >reliably in production (I'm not a sysadmin by default). Later on, I >realise that for each messages, a fullblown process is forked *per >message*: load up perl, compile perl code etc..
Hi, Similar to my question earlier about an all-Perl HTTP server, I have asked myself whether there is a production-quality all-Perl mail server. This would allow you to write code in Perl to process mail messages without forking a Perl interpreter per message. If anyone has more input, I'd like to know. This is what I've found so far (and it appears to work with qmail). http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/components.html#mail_server There is a drop-in replacement called "qpsmtpd" for a certain server within the qmail server suite (qmail-smtpd) which has been written in Perl (thanks to Ask Bjoern Hansen). http://www.qmail.org/top.html http://www.nrg4u.com/qmail/the-big-qmail-picture-103-p1.gif http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ I know this really wasn't your question, but this was an interesting discovery that was relevant specifically to your mail delivery problem. Stephen P.S. There is a mail server written entirely in Java, called "James", hosted by Apache. There ought to be one for Perl. http://jakarta.apache.org/james/index.html
