May I suggest you also take a look at OpenBSD's new smtpd? They will include it with the upcoming 4.6 release - a long awaited alternative to sendmail with a more clean config syntax (inspired by other OBSD-developed tools). http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smtpd&sektion=8
> I've managed to build tinymail..but a gobject framework of 16MB size is > not exactly > minimal, tiny or suckless in any way. > The repository comes with no commandline or non-gtk dependent example. > I still think that it is possible to implement a smtp/pop3/imap protocol > handler in less > than 1000LOC, all protocols are text based and by just defining a few > functions for > handling timeouts, responses and so on shouldnt be that hard. > 6 years ago I wrote a mail daemon (SMTP) in about 500LOC able to manage > mbox, > several auth methods and mutliple connections at the same time. > fetchmail has lot of unnecessary features and lacks many useful > functionalities. > msmtp is cool, but I always find it unnecesarily complex for the things > it has to do. For > example, the network layer if wrapped by a bouncer can permit to keep > connections > alive, add encription, tunels and many other funny stuff. > What I'm proposing is a simple setup with wrappers for > sendmail,msmtp,whatever that > can be exchanged by just changing a hook script. > About attaching files I have some minimal base64 algorithms, so it > should be that hard > to make it work in stream like: > $ cat mail | add-attachments mail.d/* | msmtp m...@to.com > And the same for extracting the attachments. > I dont really think this is a loss of time (yeah, you can hate me), but > I hate to be forced > to use bloatware everywhere. > I also use tinymail on the n810 because is the one that comes by default > in the last > firmwares because is just much better than the monolitic approach from > Nokia, but > having 16MB++ of memory slurped by a mail library on an embedded device > is imho > not a good thing. But I understand that having dbus to avoid doing > innecessary stuff > when the device is offline and earn battery is a good thing, but at > least I would prefer > to have my own minimal stack of mail management. > --pancake > Kurt H Maier wrote: > > Check out tinymail[1]. This guy took a pretty cerebral approach to > > developing his MUA back-end library. I've used it in the form of > > Modest[2] on my Nokia n810. > > > > Personally, I'd hate to see any more dev hours wasted on garbage like > > imap or pop3. ssh/rsyncing maildir to form a 'local copy,' then > > 'commiting' changes back seems much saner to me. > > > > [1] - http://tinymail.org/ > > [2] - http://modest.garage.maemo.org/ > -- wbr, Илембитов
