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Could you please suggest a simple SMTP server with the very basic APIs (by very basic I mean, to read, write, delete email), that could be run on a linux box? I just need to convert the crux of the email into XML format and FTP it to another machine.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a protocol, which handles sending e-mail and routing e-mail between mail servers. Python provides smtplib module, which defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon.
Python comes with the built-in smtplib module for sending emails using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). smtplib uses the RFC 821 protocol for SMTP. The examples in this tutorial will use the Gmail SMTP server to send emails, but the same principles apply to other email services.
Take a look at this SMTP sink server:
from __future__ import print_function from datetime import datetime import asyncore from smtpd import SMTPServer class EmlServer(SMTPServer): no = 0 def process_message(self, peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data): filename = '%s-%d.eml' % (datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S'), self.no) f = open(filename, 'w') f.write(data) f.close print('%s saved.' % filename) self.no += 1 def run(): # start the smtp server on localhost:1025 foo = EmlServer(('localhost', 1025), None) try: asyncore.loop() except KeyboardInterrupt: pass if __name__ == '__main__': run() It uses smtpd.SMTPServer to dump emails to files.
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