{"id":283,"date":"2004-07-27T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T08:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=283"},"modified":"2004-07-27T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T08:02:30","slug":"indy-mailserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2004\/07\/indy-mailserver\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy mailserver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I created the basics of a mailserver with the Indy 9<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

{note to self: Data Modules are for database-components}<\/p>\n

As a database, I need a database that can either run embedded and be extended to client-server. FlashFiler 2<\/a> from TurboPower can do that, and so does NexusDB<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

The plan to create a working mailserver is:
\n– design data model
\n– implement basic database structure
\n– implement accounts\/aliasses\/maillists
\n– implement receiving and storing messages for accounts\/aliasses\/maillists
\n– setup domainstructure \/ relaying-settings
\n– implement POP3 retrieval
\n– ask friends to test this version \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If things get this far, and things go well, the following items are on the to-do list:
\n– logging
\n– basic anti-spam features
\n– basic anti-virus features
\n– IMAP4 capabilities
\n– external POP3-mailbox retrieval
\n– ODBC (or native Oracle\/MSSQL) to support other databases for account\/message-storage
\n– …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,41,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-delphi","category-rare-it-services","category-5-id","category-41-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}