> Anyone know why the Maillet API didn't subclass Servlet, BTW? I'd have
> thought that
>
> public class Maillet extends GenericServlet {
> public void service(SMTPRequest request, SMTPResponse) throws
> ServletException, IOEXcception {
> }
> }
>
> would have been a really good way to handle incoming SMTP messages
> (viewing the Request/Response pair as a 'channel' rather than a one-off
> HTTP input/output).
Mailet provides for asynchronous processing of mail messages not
request-response handling.
That aside Servlet now contains some parts which an asynchronous mail API
would not be easily able to implement.
d.
