Re: Ada Mail Server?

[Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net>]

David C. Hoos wrote:
> "Larry Hazel" <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote in message
> news:3DD92D3B.8030205@otelco.net...
> 
>>Pascal Obry wrote:
>>
>>>Larry Hazel <lhhazel@otelco.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is there a mail server for Windows programmed in Ada?
>>>
>>>
>>>Depending on what you are looking for! In my SMTP package I have a part
>>
> for
> 
>>>the server. This is more a demo than a full server ;) all it does is
>>
> read
> 
>>>incoming SMTP mail, parse them and create an Ada structure with this
>>>information and call a callback routine for each message... This was to
>>>implement some kind of mail-server (sending command in e-mail to
>>
> activate such
> 
>>>or such command...)... Anyway all this is work in progress...
>>>You can grab current sources from my homepage. Look for package SMTP.
>>>
>>>Pascal.
>>>
>>
>>I was hoping for a full service mail server that would handle sending and
>>receiving (from multiple ISPs) for all users/computers on a home network.
> 
> I
> 
>>have downloaded your SMTP package and will take a look at it.  If
> 
> everything is
> 
>>in French, I probably won't understand though.
> 
> Do you really mean a server, or are you talking about an E-mail _client_?
> 
> If you mean a _server_, are you planning to open port 25 to the world on
> your
> home network?
> 
> When you talk about multiple ISPs, that sounds like you want an E-mail
> client,
> because IPSs usually provide an SMTP server accepting connections on port
> 25,
> and a POP3 server accepting connections on port 110.
> 
> I have used Pascal's SMTP package, but what it does (in its default
> configuration)
> is listen on port 25 for incoming messages which have been addressed to the
> host on which the package is running -- i.e., the messages were _not_
> addressed
> to some user@ some ISP.
> 
> I used Pascal's package integrated into a program handling tactical text
> messages
> using SMTP as the transport.  This way, my application reacted immediately
> to an
> incoming message, rather than depending on some program like sendmail
> signalling
> my application.
> 
> So, all that said... it doesn't sound like what you want.
> 
> 
>>Larry
>>
I was looking for something with capabilities similar to Workgroupmail 
http://www.workgroupmail.com
Larry