In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, abhinav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ya its supposed to be some stupid 6 month project which my friend has >to do.I am just helping him out.he may not be implementing a full >fledged rfc compliance mail server but may support some of the major >functionalities.so basically its an extra ordinary need.I just wanted >to know which language would be better for implementation and has >faster development cycle.I have heard a lot about python and its ease >of use.My point is it should be worth a 6 month project and speedy >development since he is already proficient in C/C++ socket programming >and taking the pain of learning python should be worth the effort. >
In that case, you'll come closer to having a working mail server in Python. I just hope that it's understood you won't have a mail server which is ready to be used on the Internet for any but very limited applications. -- Jim Segrave ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list