On Saturday 03 February 2001 10:28, Morten W. Petersen wrote:

Hi guys,

I'm wondering about creating IMAP and SMTP services for Zope. Someone mentioned to me that extending (using?) the ZServer could be a Good Thing (tm).

probably. i've always been curious though about the threads in zserver, i thought they were allocated to handle only zpublisher requests (maybe just http requests). assuming you don't want to tie up the thread handling the asyncore it seems you might need to create a pool of threads for handling requests, or adjust your code to translate imap/smtp requests into zpublisher requests so the default pool can be used. granted if you're not also running a busy website on this than it probably won't be a concern as esp. if the server operations are fast.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

micheal already pointed out his imap code. i'd like to give warning that handling imap properly with different clients can be a pain. the protocol is a bit complex and there are some gray areas, which different clients handle differently. pop is much, much simpler if you want to go that route (with the option of just leaving mail on the server, you might be able to treat it superficially like imap). barry warsaw has an async implementation of a smtp server that he uses to test out mailman, its on his homesite at http://www.wooz.org/users/barry/software/Code/smtpd.py HTH, kapil