On 7/11/05, Jem Berkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand it, we want to produce one module that deals with the SMTP > protocol, and a separate module to handle mail delivery (probably via > procmail is easiest for now). Does this mean we should also produce > separate modules, one for incoming and one for outgoing mail transactions? > In other words, several modules: > > - SMTP protocol library > - Incoming SMTP mail (hook connection/server) > - Outgoing SMTP mail (spooling, DNS MX, sendmail-ish) > - Delivery of SMTP message (to local, e.g. pipe to procmail)
Why would these be different modules? From my perspective, the module should handle the entire protocol. You may or may not want to spawn specified threads to make outbound connections, but local delivery should probably just be handled on the request thread. I figured that sending to mail to procmail or spam filters for delivery would just be a called from a handler, and then fall through to external delivery, etc. -Joey
