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On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:50, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Stephen Adkins wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Exim 4 embeds a Perl interpreter in the daemon.
>
>
There is a project, designed for use with XMail
(http://www.xmailserver.com), that provides a Perl daemon to process
messages. It can work local or remote via samba or NFS shares. It
isn't a standalone mail server, but provides message filters for
incoming messages (outgoing will be supported in later releases of
XMail). It comes with a SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org) and
virus procedure (filter).
I am still testing it, but it works good so far. I am using it for
SpamAssassin and Mhonarc (http://www.mhonarc.org). It also has a nice
"procedure" system that allows for plugins.
Its flying under the name 'Scope' right now.
http://www.saltstorm.net/depo/scope/
It is Linux and Windows compatible (most likely any UNIX though) and
uses a small C++ binary to avoid the overhead of a invoking the Perl
interpreter to hand the information to the Perl daemon.
I find that is the best of both worlds. The developer of the email
server isn't worried about my needs for parsing/processing each message
and all I need to know is where to add the line that passes the info the
Perl daemon. We can each focus on our domain.
I don't want everything to be in Perl because somethings are better
managed or gain performance based in other languages. When I can use
Perl to fill in the gaps and not have to know the internals of the other
server, then I feel it is a big win for everyone.
The Scope project to me represents a SOAP/RPC structure. This same base
could be modified to be the base of a Perl Application server possibly.
It might be similar in some respects to PureMessage from ActiveState,
but I haven't worked with PureMessage so I can't be sure.
Aaron
> -dave
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