[Zope3-dev] Twisted as server

[Stephan Richter]

At 05:38 PM 2/11/2002 -0500, barry@zope.com wrote:

> >>>>> "SR" == Stephan Richter <srichter@cbu.edu> writes:
>
>     SR> Kapil showed me a version of Zope 3 running off Twisted. As
>     SR> far as I understand it, Twisted is more object-oriented and
>     SR> support already many more protocols than Medusa. I would
>     SR> really like to see Twisted to become the standard Zope
>     SR> server. This way I can implement native SMTP (thinking Mailman
>     SR> 3.0 here) and IRC servers using Zope, which I think is really
>     SR> cool. ;-)
>
>     SR> What are you opinions? Kapil, how much would it take to put
>     SR> Twisted into the Zope 3?
>
>I had some discussion w/ Moshe about it, and it sounds really cool.
>It would be awesome, for example, if you could distribute a turnkey
>ZMailman system, with none of the typical fragile glue between web
>servers and MTAs (not to mention NNTP servers :).

Yep, this is exactly what I was thinking about as well. ;-)

>MTAs of course, have lots of important properties that I don't know
>whether the Twisted guys have thought about, such as delivery to
>mailboxes, retry deliveries, MX lookups, etc.  You could probably
>start with a simple Twisted framework for incoming mail only, which
>would hand off to Mailman and be done with it.  There's no reason why
>you couldn't (initially) run a separate industrial strength MTA for
>outgoing that listened on other-than-port-25 from localhost.  It would
>handle all the fault tolerant messages coming /out/ of Mailman.

Agreed.

Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
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