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  1. Apr 27th, 2001, 03:32 PM #1
    nniyi
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    Smtp Server

    I have just accepted a project to write an SMTP SERVER that will run on Windows NT/2000 Platform.

    I am very new to communication programming.

    Is it possible to accomplish this in VB?

    Does anyone have any information that could help me get started?
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  2. May 2nd, 2001, 07:06 PM #2
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    Sorry, But why reinvent the wheel? There are plenty of GOOD SMTP servers out there, I think that IIS that comes with NT/2K even comes with one..

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  3. May 5th, 2001, 04:05 AM #3
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    a good RFC index:
    http://www.sunsite.dk/RFC
    RFC821, RFC822, ...

    http://www.sendmail.org

    some other links:
    http://www.tair.freeservers.com/vb.html
    http://www.extreme-vb.net/access/vb_inter.html


    but how ever ... i would not recommend to write a mail server on your own ... although the protocol
    is call "simple" mail trasfer protocol, you have to be very carfull to make your mail-server not an easy target for hackers...
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  4. May 5th, 2001, 04:11 AM #4
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    there is an SMTP server with IIS in Windows NT/2000 and I would really suggest if you are dead set on writing one that you use C++. If you try to write it in VB you'll understand why I say that, VB is not easily made multi-threaded and for any kind of speed out of a mail server it must be multi-threaded. VB is great if you need an interactive program, but a mail server isn't interactive, if it has an interface at all it should be minimal. The RFC's are a great source of info though, and it really is a simple protocol, but as was mentioned before, it's also a simple protocol to hack if it's not implemented correctly.
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