So in other words, you don't have a smarthost to which to forward outgoing mail.Dear All, I have used the Net::SMTP package to make myself a little mailer and am happy with the outcome. (Good learning experience, too.) Now I have a new problem. Where I am at the moment I have a great internet connect but no "provider" to give me access to an SMTP server. I did some reading in a
The first question I'd ask is, are you primarily interested in having an SMTP server, or developing one?bookshop and saw that, at least under the Linux version, Perl has its own little SMTP server that can be invoked. My thought is to make a small applet that can act as my server at need, much as Sendmail or Exim do for me under Linux. Does anybody know of any similar code I could canabalise or can anyone suggest other starting points?
The path of least resistance would be to get something like Apple/Eudora Internet Mail Server -- it should Just Work. If you want a really rich development experience, grab the source to any SMTP server (language unimportant) and use it as a guide to implementing your own.
For my own part, I have a GNU/Linux Internet gateway, where I run exim. If I were in your situation (and had lots of time on my hands), I'd develop my own server in C++. But then again, I'm not just another Perl hacker. :-)
Josh
