Hi, On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That is the client part. This SMTP client is actually the SMTP server > of the sender. > > I didn't get that. How does the SMTP client become the SMTP server of the sender ? > I have written a C SMTP proxy that uses UNIX semantics doing a fork(), > and uses poll(2) to ferry packets between the client and server. > > Wouldn't epoll(I guess the *BSD equivalent is kqueue) be a better option ? > As and when my experience unfolds more info I shall post to LUG. > > Sure do. It is worth spending time understanding how the basic protocols work, and most of the text based protocols are quite easy to understand. Thanks PS: GMail has made its new-style compose and the default. So, if the reply(quoting style) looks odd/confusing, I apologise. I will move to using some a mail client very soon. -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. - Swami Vivekananda Mail: benignb...@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc