[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] CVS: Zope3/lib/python/Zope/App/OFS/Services/SmtpService/Views - __init__.py:1.1 configure.zcml:1.1

[sathya]

looks like murthy checked in work in progress to the head instead of the 
branch. Let me get with him and fix it.

sathya

Florent Guillaume wrote:

>Speaking of SMTP, I'm not too happy about the implementation just
>checked in. It's not very clean, there are no docstrings, it won't
>support Unicode strings and encode them as needed, it doesn't use string
>methods as Kapil noticed, it doesn't use isinstance, the interface is
>ISMTPService whereas the module is SmtpService, there are no unit tests,
>even $Id: doesn't have a closing $...
>
>Ok, ok, I'm whining and not writing that code, but still it had to be
>said.
>
>Florent
>
>
>Stephan Richter  <stephan.richter@tufts.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>BTW, in an old revision (Jim will know where to look) there is already code
>>for a complete SMTP and POP3 Server. You might want to make use of the SMTP
>>server code, so that Windows users do not have to provide their own server or
>>so.
>>
>>Also, in my opinion that makes Zope 3 much cooler. (I can see Windows people
>>just using Zope for its SMTP capabilities, as there is no other good free one
>>out there, except shicks! from which I derived my original code. Gerson, the
>>author of shicks!, since then modularized shicks! a lot, so that we can just
>>use his Spam detection code now.
>>
>>I really, really think an SMTP server is important, if Zope wants to grow
>>10x...also think of Mailman 3... We need to get away of just thinking about
>>HTTP and friends...
>>
>>Here the link to the CVS entries:
>>http://cvs.zope.org/Zope3/lib/python/Zope/Server/SMTP/Attic/
>>
>>shicks! site:
>>http://p-nand-q.com/shicks.htm
>>
>>Regards,
>>Stephan
>>    
>>