Hello, guys!
My name is Daniel and i am interested in helping this project. Actually, i am paid to
do it :-), i'll explain:
My company (deltathree.com, Inc.) wants me to write a messaging server (SMTP + IMAP)
with certain features that could provide instant messaging functionality, by using
SMTP SEND and SOML optional commands and IMAP EXISTS untagged response. The initial
(well-forgotten) purpose of the SEND command was to deliver the message to user's
terminal. From the RFC:
"The main purpose of SMTP is to deliver messages to user's
mailboxes. A very similar service provided by some hosts is to
deliver messages to user's terminals (provided the user is active
on the host). The delivery to the user's mailbox is called
"mailing", the delivery to the user's terminal is called
"sending". "
So, the initial meaning of it was providing some limited instant messaging
functionality and my purpose is to revive it.
And on the receiving part, EXISTS in IMAP already a "response without a request" which
means "pushing" of the new message notification instead of "pulling" provided that
IMAP connection is constantly on (not like most of the current uses of IMAP).
<clarification>Yes, i am aware of the Jabber effort and no, i don't like their
XML-stream-based protocol: i don't want yet another ICQ, i want "instant
email".</clarification>
So ... So far i wrote a simple SMTP receiving (no relay) server implementation and
started to write an IMAP one and was going to connect these two, but then i found this
mailing list. I know, the project's page sais "don't ask!", but where is the source if
any?
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