Hi Andreas,

That's correct.  And what you do with the incoming mail is up to the reader to 
implement.

I wrote this to solve a problem.  A few months ago, some spammers forged my 
domain for their return address for a mass spamming which resulted in over 
10,000 bounces a day.  My host took exception to this and pulled the plug on my 
email.

A few days ago, I asked them to point the MX record to my static IP address at 
home where I have a cable connection.

This smtp service deals with all the smtp connections that resulted from that.

Over the weekend I was running it, I was getting 2-3000 attempted smtp 
connections per day.  My service is able to recognise most of the bounces, and 
spam servers, and is even better at it with the new greylisting feature.  As a 
result, with an active spamtrap address enabled, only 20 spam got thru, and all 
good email made it thru.  I have some ideas on extending the greylisting scheme 
to improve this even further.

The incoming mail is currently just saved to the local drive in a mailbox as a 
unix type mail format.  Eventually, I will save it to a database, and then 
write a pop3 service to retrieve it.

I presume that it's not that difficult to add the functionality to send mail 
outside .. afterall, spamming engines do it .. but I don't have that need at 
present.

Andreas Bolka  wrote.. apparently on 8-Mar-2005/23:59:20+1:00
>Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 8:25:00 PM, Graham wrote:
>
>> I have written a smtp service for Dockimbel's UniServe.
>
>> http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/display/Smtpd.r
>
>as far as i can see, it's a local delivery smtp service - is that
>correct?
>
>-- 
>Best regards,
> Andreas
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