Just the kind of info I needed, thanks. I'll have a look and decide just how much trouble I'm buying myself. If I build anything useful, I'll post it.
Cheers, Adam in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bart Lateur at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 26/11/02 12:30 PM: > On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:13:20 +0100, Adam Bartley wrote: > >> 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 >> bookshop and saw that, at least under the Linux version, Perl has its own >> little SMTP server that can be invoked. > > Are you sure it's not just Sendmail or another similar program? > >> 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? > > If Lincoln Steins book, "Network Programming with Perl" > (<http://modperl.com:9000/perl_networking/>) doesn't mention it, then > you're pretty much on your own, I guess. And it doesn't look that way. > Anyway, if you're remotely interested in writing your own network apps > in Perl, I strongly advice you to get this book. > > As for an SMTP server, you could write a minimal server, starting with a > tiny server from the book (part 3), and implement a state machine, which > receives the requests from the client as per RFC 821/2821 (chapter 7 > contains an example of a typical dialogue), and produce the proper > replies at the right time. It looks simple enough (ahem).
