[nicholassmith]

Very recently I built a little desktop email client. It was...interesting. And hoary. And fraught. Very interesting though, I think everyone should have a crack at writing a basic SMTP library at some stage just so they appreciate the benevolence of anyone happy enough to sit and go through RFC guidelines.

Node seems like a far better choice for the project than Rails, no hate for RoR from me but Node is pretty much designed for the way email needs to operate.

[vy8vWJlco]

But... SMTP stands for SIMPLE Mail Transfer Protocol.

[pyre]

Depends on what you are comparing it to. LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. I don't think that anyone would consider LDAP lightweight, but compared to X.509...

[jiggy2011]

There's also Simple Object Access Protocol.

[deong]

Not if I stick my fingers in my ears and shout loudly enough.

[davidklanac]

Definitely agree with you that the benevolent few who produce FOSS deserve admiration especially when wrestling with the esoteric aspects of POP, IMAP and SMTP.

[nicholassmith]

No doubt, I was thankfully using mostly FOSS components but I rolled my own SMTP solution a while back and it was hard to get right, especially dealing with how the format deals with multipart etc.