Hello, Just a thought - dmail had an actual primative smtp daemon at one time; as lmtp is just a stripped down smtp protocol, would it be easier to start there than re-impliment from scratch?
---- Original Message ---- From: Eelco van Beek <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dbmail-dev] A Really Alpha LMTP daemon Sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:41:43 +0200 > Hi Aaron, > > > Here's a really basic, not yet working LMTP daemon. Mostly it's pop3.c, > > pop3.h and pop3d.c with a little s/pop3?/lmtp/g magic. > > Cool! > > > Entering DATA will cause the RCPT addresses to be looked up via > > auth_check_user_ext() and say if they're valid or not. I haven't > > started > > working on the "real data" part (the one that actually accepts a > > message) > > because I'm still working out which pieces of pipe.c and injector.c are > > good, which parts need more abstraction, and which parts get junked. > > If you need any 'inside' info on those subject, please let me know! > > > I do get some segfaults and weird behaviour. If someone could audit the > > code following the case LMTP_MAIL, LMTP_RCPT and LMTP_DATA blocks in > > lmtp.c I would very much appreciate it. What really bugs me, though, is > > that a few of the problems are not consistently triggered :-\ > > I've looked at the code. One possible problem cause is that you're not > correctly closing the case block for LMTP_MAIL (after the return should > be another }). Since i'm now on my bed checking this i can't really > sent you any patches :) > > > Time to hunt down those random state bits! > > > > I hope that this might become a basis for the official LMTP daemon, > > but in > > any event this is a lot of fun to write! Plus, the experience helps for > > the next daemon I'm going to write, for the ManageSieve protocol :-) > > Very nice. If you're writing more daemons Roel's server software (the > one that handles clients connections, child births and stuff like that) > should come in handy. > > Again, if you need any help, please let me know. > > > Huge shout out to the IC&S guys because the structure of pop3.c was SO > > easy to work with! > > Thanks! > > Eelco > > > _________________________ > E.J.A. van Beek > ICT Manager > IC&S > T: +31 30 2322878 > F: +31 30 2322305 > > PGP-key: > www.ic-s.nl/keys/eelco.txt > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > -- End Original Message -- -- Jesse Norell jesse (at) kci.net
