Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 08:47 , Felix Geerinckx wrote: [..] > a) parses the email address > b) look up the MX record for the destination through DNS > c) uses the SMTP protocol to exchange the message with the > destination mail server (using sockets). [..] hence an advanced MUA borderin

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread Felix Geerinckx
on Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:31:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) wrote: > > On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:49 , Brad Fike wrote: > >> I, personally have an smtp server but I still want to write a >> script that does not need it. > > actually you want a 'daemon' - not a 'script' > since to be a

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:49 , Brad Fike wrote: > I, personally have an smtp server but I still want to write a script that > does not need it. actually you want a 'daemon' - not a 'script' since to be a 'server' - it will need to come up connect to a specified port - in this case not t

RE: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread Brad Fike
could copy-and-paste into an email? Thanks, Brad > -Original Message- > From: drieux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:45 AM > To: begin begin > Subject: Re: roll your own small smtp server > > > On Thursday, June 27, 200

Re: roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread drieux
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:17 , Brad Fike wrote: [..] > What I would like to do is find a module or a script that > can run like it's own smtp server. (ie there is not one available > on my network) this part does not make a lot of sense - since if we are getting your email - then it woul

roll your own small smtp server

2002-06-27 Thread Brad Fike
Hello all, I know about the net::smtp module and use it. What I would like to do is find a module or a script that can run like it's own smtp server. (ie there is not one available on my network) Does anyone know of a module to do that or have some code using a lower level module (io::socket)