SHshuzchen·Jun 18, 2019
You might be interested in https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson
It's super old (died when python 2 was still the king) but probably more suited for making programmatic mail applications
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Pythonic SMTP Application Server
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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11 sourcesPerhaps using an email server that's written in a scripting language would work? For example, https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson is written in python. Perhaps you could get it running on your jailbroken device if you could get python and pip installed.
In Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email serverIt's Python mail server, that tries to be like Django for Mail. https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson/blob/master/README.md
In MJML – Responsive Email FrameworkIt looks perhaps unmaintained these days, but in the past I solved a similar problem using Lamson.
Lamson: https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=612642
In Ask HN: How do I solve this?what do you think about the Lamson[1]/Salmon[2] project (originally by Zed Shaw)?
It seemed really cool but seemed to have fizzled out.
[1] https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson
[2] https://github.com/moggers87/salmon
In Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?Lamson – Pythonic SMTP Application Server
1 points · Open discussionThe headline says "demands fork relicense as BSD" (Murphy's law guarantees that HN mods will change it), but Lamson's new license ( https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson/blob/master/LICENSE ) is not BSD. It has some creative clauses: "4. Contributors agree that any contributions are owned by the copyright holder and that contributors have absolutely no rights to their contributions. 5. The copyright holder reserves the right to revoke this license on anyone who uses this copyrighted work at any time for any reason."
In Jed Shaw claims revoking GPL is possible, demands fork relicense as BSDNew Lamson license can be revoked at any time for any reason
1 points · Open discussionIt has been GPLv3 before.
https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson/commit/d259a669728a92a386f...
In Zed's new Lamson licence: yank the rug at any time.The wording in question:
5. The copyright holder reserves the right to revoke this license on anyone who uses this copyrighted work at any time for any reason.
And his explanation from the README:
Lamson is licensed under the license in the https://github.com/zedshaw/lamson/blob/master/LICENSE file. It's a variant of the BSD license that is revokeable and makes contributor's rights clear up front.
It's a phenomenal idea. I'm gonna start buying stuff in revokeable cash.
In Zed's new Lamson licence: yank the rug at any time.Zed's new Lamson licence: yank the rug at any time.
21 points · Open discussion