Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > Cool! Pretty funny that qpsmtpd makes a good test tool for an SMTP > client. :-)
Yeah, well, qpsmtpd is a lot lighter weight and yet feature complete (not to mention easier to configure) than any other MTA I've yet encountered. ;-) I have grandiose plans to write an abstract RFC2821 class that could be quickly turned into a stub server with a single subclass. Oddly enough, if I go that route, I will probably wind up rewriting qpsmtpd to use that class (since it will have a true finite state machine) and everything will come full circle. > If we made Qpsmtpd installable via CPAN then it could just see if > Qpsmtpd is available and if so then start a server instance on a high > port. The only caveat with that is that I explicitly test SMTPS, which the qpsmtpd code only supports on port 465. I could test everything else, however, but I'd like to support the tlsinit required for a fully SSL connection (even though the RFC's suggest this is legacy only). Maybe if I go forward on my AUTH rewrite, to get those hardcoded bits out of the core... John
