ya its supposed to be some stupid 6 month project which my friend has to do.I am just helping him out.he may not be implementing a full fledged rfc compliance mail server but may support some of the major functionalities.so basically its an extra ordinary need.I just wanted to know which language would be better for implementation and has faster development cycle.I have heard a lot about python and its ease of use.My point is it should be worth a 6 month project and speedy development since he is already proficient in C/C++ socket programming and taking the pain of learning python should be worth the effort.
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