jim you are probably right. i have had exp. with this. i had to create a server(multipurpose such as file sharing, games (pretty simple tho like tic tac toe..) we were in 6th sem with learning OS and comp. n/w for the first time.
it seems like these jack ass jerks (proffs/instuctors) like to bully students... obviously we cud not complete the project as most of the time was spent on learning the stuff(like TCP, multithreading..) . i don't know how things work out in the west, but i feel the faculty really care about their students in american colleges..in contrast to here (in inida, though things are little different in the IITs) Jim Segrave wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ravi Teja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Why don't you use an existing mail server? > > > >Probably because that was his homework assignment for a networking > >class. Not uncommon to be told to implement a server from the scratch > >from the RFC. Although that does not explain his concern about > >performance. > > > >Abhinav, if that is the case, using sockets is more or less the same > >from any language. Python as usual will be cleaner than C. You might > >want to look at Twisted Mail. Use SocketServer module in the standard > >library to implement the RFC. Other than that it is silly to try to > >write a Mail Server unless you have some extra ordinary need. > > Any lecturer assigning "write a mail server" as a class project is > doing his/her students a true dis-service. Mail server RFC compliance is a > nightmare to get right, performance issues and mail routeing are both > material for at least a full year's university study. > > A student who tries to make an even vaguely RFC compliant mail server > probably won't finish their project, as student who completes such a > project might come away with the mistaken belief that they actually > have done it correctly. > > The number of software products which use eail and do so incorrectly > is astounding and depressing. There's a reason that the source for > sendmail is about 120K lines, exim is nearly 270K lines. Doing it > right is _hard_. > > > > > > -- > Jim Segrave ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
