how hard is it to write a SMTP client?

[Richard O. Hammer]

Following Andy Oliver's lead, I will tell that I too am working on a 
mailserver project with goals so different from those of James that I 
am trying to develop a separate body of code.  My goal is to offer a 
an email service through which unknown senders will be allowed to send 
their messages only after they have posted bond.  If you are curious, 
you can read more about this at <http://mailscreen.net>.

I find the code of James valuable as instruction and example, and I 
hope to be able pay back with contributions wherever my project overlaps.

On that vein, has the possibility of writing an SMTP sender to replace 
javax.mail.Transport been considered?  It seems to me that it may not 
be very hard to write that side, although I have not tried and may be 
mistaken.

I read that Sun intended JavaMail for SMTP clients but not for servers 
(probably I read that in either the API or the specification).  That 
may explain why the JavaMail API sometimes seems so difficult to use 
as a utility for an MTA.  (For example, it seems silly to me that I 
must create a Session (or a Folder) before I can parse an incoming 
MimeMessage.)

Anyhow, my questions are about writing an SMTP client: does it appear 
to be a difficult undertaking? has it been considered for James?

Thank you,
Rich Hammer
Hillsborough, N.C.
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