Re: Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-27 Thread Tom Maier
Witse: > I don't have to do your home work. But consider the following. SMTP > was designed to implement a store-and-forward infrastructure, i.e. > nothing that remotely resembles 'upload' and 'fetch' functionality(*). > In the context of SMTP, those things have been implemented through > add-on pr

Re: Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-26 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
[ Oops, postfix-users was the wrong list apparently, reposting to postfix-devel ] > On Dec 26, 2017, at 8:29 PM, Tom Maier wrote: > > Within my uni project I have to implement additional SMTP commands in > order to upload or download data (e.g., base64 encoded data). This is > why my initial id

Re: Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-26 Thread John Levine
In article <1769a436-daf1-45df-b601-7eb1e17d6...@wurps.de>, Tom Maier wrote: >The project description states that I have to implement some SMTP extension >which provides two features. (1) The owner of an SMTP account should be able >to upload >personal information in the vCard format onto his m

Re: Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: > Postfix (or SMTP) supports neither uploading nor fetching, but that > has not stopped people from implementing that over SMTP. 25 Years > ago, people would set up all sorts of email aliases that would > deliver an email message to a local program that would respond with > a new email mess

Re: Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-26 Thread Tom Maier
> Postfix (or SMTP) supports neither uploading nor fetching, but that > has not stopped people from implementing that over SMTP. 25 Years > ago, people would set up all sorts of email aliases that would > deliver an email message to a local program that would respond with > a new email message. > >

Re: Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Tom Maier: > The project description states that I have to implement some SMTP > extension which provides two features. (1) The owner of an SMTP > account should be able to upload personal information in the vCard > format onto his mail account after authentication. (2) Everyone > should be able to

Writing a SMTP Extension

2017-12-26 Thread Tom Maier
Hi recently I got a project at university which includes an enhancement for Postfix. I read through the code already and tried to understand the various daemons. I feel a little lost because this is the first big open source project I am working on. The project description states that I have t