On Tue, 21 May 2013 18:50:23 +0200, Sorin Stelian <sorin.stel...@axis.com> wrote: > I am posting this here since I could find no active maintainer of the smtpd > module.
Currently I am effectively the maintainer of that module, though other people are helping out. > In my work as a test engineer for Axis (www.axis.com) I encountered > the need of having thread-safe SMTP servers. I know the use case of > several SMTP servers running in concurrent threads might seem odd, but > it can actually be quite useful for testing purposes. > > I have implemented (for my own use) a possible solution which > basically means that every SMTP channel has its own socket map, > instead of using asyncore's global socket map. It would not involve > any change in asyncore. > > Looking at the disucssion from http://bugs.python.org/issue11959 it > seems to me that such a solution would not be accepted. Do you think > that modifying asyncore is more feasible? If not, is this something > that might be looked at? > > I can provide code if needed, but I would first like to know your > thoughts about this. I don't think issue 11959 represents a categorical rejection of improvements here; however, I suspect that tulip has an impact on this. Regardless of that, any changes need to be discussed in a wider context than just the smtpd module, no matter where changes are actually made. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
