Thank you. I have just realised I completely misunderstand how SMTP servers work. From what I can tell, when you run the cookbook script it listens locally on port 8025.
You then have to configure a Linux (in my case) account with a username and password so my external piece of software (on another Windows machine) can log in and use the SMTP server. Then I write the some code in the cookbook example to redirect any mail content to the MS SQL server database. Note that the external piece of software can only talk SMTP - this is why I am having to develop this script. Does this sound sensible? Any tips on how to configure my Linux box (I don't have much experience with Linux either)? Many thanks Jon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
