hi Tomasz (apologies for the delay in replying)
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Tomasz Płonka<[email protected]> wrote: > If anything that I write here is hard to understand please let me > know. English is not my native language and there may be some > mistakes. that's fine. many of the developers are also not native english speakers. often we find it's easier to post some code or a diagram than prose. > I am student and my thesis is related to electronic mail. I have to > choose one e – mail server and implement my own extension of ESMTP. To > do this I need to implement two things in this server. First is proper > response to my ESMTP command. Second thing is that server must start > communication with other server after given amount of ime. ok > Implementing new ESMTP command is simple and I managed to do it > myself, but I don't know how I can initialize connection to another > server. Can anyone give me some hints how to do it? (hopefully one of the SMTP experts will jump in sometime soon but i'll do my best) a couple of questions 1. what type of connection (eg SMTP, POP3, HTTP) do you want to open? 2. when does this connection need to be opened? (eg during the SMTP processing transaction, during post-processing of the accepted message, on a scheduled basis) > I would be very grateful for any help. And again, if anything is not > clear please let me know about it, so I can make it straight. a diagram would be great :-) - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
