I was curious if the Python email package that TMDA makes extensive use of was still being developed, and it appears that it is.
http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/email-sig/ Though Python now ships with the email module, TMDA bundles it's own copy so we can keep behavior consistent amongst TMDA users of different Python versions. TMDA currently uses v2.5.5. I caught up on the email-sig list traffic since I stopped reading in late 2003, and a few things caught my attention -- Mainly the "FeedParser" which was added to email 3.0. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/email-sig/2004-November/000191.html "New FeedParser provides an incremental parsing API for applications that may need to read email messages from blocking sources (e.g. sockets). FeedParser is also more standards compliant than the old parser and is "non-strict", so that it should never raise parse errors when parsing broken messages." and from http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/email-sig/docs/node6.html "The FeedParser is extremely accurate when parsing standards-compliant messages, and it does a very good job of parsing non-compliant messages" This is good news for TMDA, since TMDA needs to be able to handle messages of all kinds, and since it processes spam which is often non-compliant and broken, it needs to be ultra flexible. The old parser was not so forgiving which led to exceptions raised in LOGFILE_DEBUG when TMDA choked on a broken message. Users would interpret that as a bug and report it as such. Tim Legant and I hacked around that fairly well, but not completely. Switching to FeedParser might be very good for us. Then there is v4.0 of the email package which was released earlier this year -- http://mail.python.org/pipermail/email-sig/2006-March/000266.html I'm not clear it would buy us a whole lot over 3.0, but perhaps it has some additional bug fixes. I think Mailman 2.2 is using email 4.0. I think I will take a hard look at both next week and integrate one of them into TMDA and see how it works. Since TMDA 1.1.x requires Python 2.3 or greater we have the flexibility to use either email 3.0 or 4.0. _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([email protected]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
