Jul 272004
Jul 272004
The mailserver is slowly (very slowly, I’ve been reading blogs too much!) progressing into something. See this screenshot:
Jul 272004
Jul 272004
More Borland news: they are giving away Together for free. Okay, okay, they created a special edition, that can be downloaded for free. It’s a 60MB download that can be found here. The press release about this Borland-Together-for-the-masses is here.
I’m not sure why there is no integration with Delphi, at least the Together productpages don’t mention it.
Jul 272004
Not sure if you want to eat it or keep it, but for Borland-a-holics this item on Ebay is a must-have: John Kaster’s cookie, being sold by Anders Ohlsson.
Jul 272004
Yesterday I created the basics of a mailserver with the Indy 9 components. To avoid cluttering the main form, I’ve put the components on a Data Module, but that was not a good idea. Moving them to the main form made the code compile and run.
{note to self: Data Modules are for database-components}
As a database, I need a database that can either run embedded and be extended to client-server. FlashFiler 2 from TurboPower can do that, and so does NexusDB, but the free version of NexusDB has a limitation of 1 database per app, 5 tables per db, and 10000 rows per table. Not sure if that will do the trick for a mailserver. Buying (US$900) just to create a proof-of-concept seems a little irrational, even to me.
The plan to create a working mailserver is:
– design data model
– implement basic database structure
– implement accounts/aliasses/maillists
– implement receiving and storing messages for accounts/aliasses/maillists
– setup domainstructure / relaying-settings
– implement POP3 retrieval
– ask friends to test this version 🙂
If things get this far, and things go well, the following items are on the to-do list:
– logging
– basic anti-spam features
– basic anti-virus features
– IMAP4 capabilities
– external POP3-mailbox retrieval
– ODBC (or native Oracle/MSSQL) to support other databases for account/message-storage
– …