Ok, this may be a totally crazy idea that's completely unnecessary, but here it goes:
I want to have a high performance mail server that's easy to configure for use in our system at work. Currently we're bound to apache/php and such and our mail server is Exim. Exim is a great mailserver, but it's not terribly fast, at least in our setup, for delivering large batches of messages. (we send out about 3K email updates in the morning and few hundred every hour or two during the day). I guess it's kind of like the Apache of mail servers. It can do lots of stuff, and it performs well, but it's a PITA to setup. So, what I'd really like is a multi-threaded mailserver, that is simple to setup, can interface with code (to handle email sent to certain addresses), and can talk to our database (currently MySQL). Now, thinking about it, that's exactly what AOLServer does for HTTP traffic, so why can't I use AOLServer for my SMTP traffic as well? I could have a module that maintains a pool of threads to handle mail, it can authenticate or grab aliases and domains from my database, and I can even setup special email addresses to handle bounces with a tcl proc. So, has this been done already? Or even thought of? Is it possible? Or am I just nuts? - Gabriel
