Re: production mail server in Perl, was Re: asynchronous execution

Stephen Adkins wrote:
> Similar to my question earlier about an all-Perl HTTP server,
> I have asked myself whether there is a production-quality all-Perl
> mail server.  This would allow you to write code in Perl to 
> process mail messages without forking a Perl interpreter per
> message.

I think you'd be better off using a well-known and reliable mail server 
and simply solving the forking problem with something like 
PersistentPerl or Matt's PPerl (or a small stub that sends requests to 
mod_perl).

> P.S. There is a mail server written entirely in Java, called "James",
>      hosted by Apache.

I don't think it's very popular.  Most people use the JavaMail API, 
which is part of J2EE.  It's just an API, and does not require that the 
server be written in Java.

- Perrin