Hi,
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
> That is the client part. This SMTP client is actually the SMTP server
> of the sender.
>
>
I didn't get that. How does the SMTP client become the SMTP
server of the sender ?
> I have written a C SMTP proxy that uses UNIX semantics doing a fork(),
> and uses poll(2) to ferry packets between the client and server.
>
>
Wouldn't epoll(I guess the *BSD equivalent is kqueue) be a better
option ?
> As and when my experience unfolds more info I shall post to LUG.
>
>
Sure do. It is worth spending time understanding how the basic
protocols work, and most of the text based protocols are quite easy to
understand. Thanks
PS: GMail has made its new-style compose and the default. So, if the
reply(quoting style) looks odd/confusing, I apologise. I will move to using
some a mail client very soon.
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Balachandran Sivakumar
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