On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:49 , Brad Fike wrote:
> I, personally have an smtp server but I still want to write a script that > does not need it. actually you want a 'daemon' - not a 'script' since to be a 'server' - it will need to come up connect to a specified port - in this case not the standard canonical SMTP port - and take in requests and 'broker' them to a 'canonical' smtp server - so that you can get them back in your email... So the first part of that drill would be a quick intro to your friend daemonology in perl: cf: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/Sys/daemon1.txt the reason that I recommend against trying to do this with the standard port 25 access is that you will most likely want to test your server on a host where that port will most likely be bound by a canonical SMTP server... a quick check would be: vladimir: 53:] netstat -naf inet | egrep "25.*LISTEN" *.25 *.* 0 0 0 0 LISTEN vladimir: 54:] this host would NOT let you bind to it... since you could test it with: [jeeves:~] drieux% telnet vladimir 25 Trying 199.108.16.3... Connected to vladimir. Escape character is '^]'. 220-vladimir.wetware.com Smail-3.2.0.114 (#1 2001-Dec-14) 220-ready at Thu, 27 Jun 2002 08:27:17 -0700 (PDT) 220 ESMTP supported quit 221 2.2.0 vladimir.wetware.com closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. [jeeves:~] drieux% > Haven't you ever need to write code that was to be used in an environment > different then your own? I try to avoid the 'need' at all cost.... 8-) But I can understand the desire to do these things... When you want to peek at how this has been traditionally done check out say: http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Net%3A%3ASMTP%3A%3AServer you will of course want to look at the 'relay' problems that will need to be addressed as well.... [..] I have a few examples on basics of playing with email at: http://www.wetware.com/drieux/pbl/email/ but a part of your problem it seems will be getting your email client side to make the connection to your 'special port'. ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
