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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

> Chad Knepp wrote:
>
> >   o Do something even more radical like just use Medusa (ZServer) and
> >     ZODB together getting rid of all the Zope cruft.  Part of the
> >     reason I was so sold on Zope is that I really liked the
>
>
> >     development of ack! in ZODB.  It might be interesting to integrate
> >     ZODB with Twisted <twistedmatrix.com>.
>
>
> Here's something about how someone integrated Twisted with Mailman (our 
> list's software)
> for an easy nntp server to use for the mail2news gatewaying for Mailman 
> lists. I wonder if ibiblio
> could implement this?

Forgot the link & text:

http://twistedmatrix.com/services/success
Twisted Success Stories

Mailman

I wanted to test out some news/mail gatewaying for Mailman 2.1 but I didn't want to go through the hassle of actually connecting things up 
to a real news server, and I /definitely/ didn't want to actually try to install inn or some nonsense (I'd like to do some other work this 
week :).

I wished I had something like Lib/smtpd.py in the Python distro for the server side of NNTP, then it dawned on me that I remember Moshe and 
crew saying that Twisted comes with a news server. Well, let's just see how easy it would be to hook up.

You guys have a big problem, because it was /way/ too easy to do! How are you 
going to make the big consulting bucks? :)

Three commands and I had an nntp server with a single newsgroup that was featured enough to connect Mozilla to, and to point Mailman's 
gateway at and actually get messages flowing back and forth. Congratulations!

-- Barry Warsaw


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