A while ago I attended an interesting talk by Stas at the Vancouver pm. The idea of building an SMTP server using mod_perl was mentioned and the task kind of appealed to me, so here's my first attempt at it. Note that it uses Apache::TieBucketBrigade, which is my attempt at making bucket brigades look like IO::Handles. This may or may not be a good idea; I'd appreciate some feedback.
Cool. It looks nice, but you shouldn't have rushed to release things on CPAN, IMHO.
Why taking over the Apache::SMTP namespace if you don't implement a full SMTP protocol? It's usually a good idea to post a proposal here so we may help to choose a suitable name. If you badly want to put things on CPAN, include _ in the version number so that the PAUSE indexer won't index it.
Besides taking over Apache::SMTP, it should probably live somewhere under Apache::Protocol::. For some ideas see:
http://perl.apache.org/products/apache-modules.html#Module_Naming_Conventions
As for Apache::TieBucketBrigade, it's probably a good idea to make it a part of the mp2 core and implement it in C. There is a plan to provide TIE API for filters as written down at modperl-2.0/todo/features_new
BTW, I'm trying to figure out how to test both of these modules using Apache::Test, but I'm not having a lot of luck. Any pointers would be helpfull.
http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/22/testing.html
modperl-2.0 test suite and several other Apache:: modules on CPAN which now include a test suite.
You want to keep TestTieBucketBrigade.pm out of project/lib and put it under t instead. See the modperl-2.0 test suite.
thanks, and enjoy my sketchy code ;)
code can be found here: http://search.cpan.org/~mock/
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