Show HN: Rustastic SMTP – an SMTP server library written in Rust

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It would be nice to be able to see the API without having to install Rust. A small example in the README would also help lazy people like me.

I really like the SMTP api provided by the Java library SubEthaSMTP, it makes writing simple SMTP services really easy. If you haven't seen it, I recommend having a look:

https://code.google.com/p/subethasmtp/wiki/UsingSubEthaSMTP

There actually is an example in the README. However, since the library itself doesn't yet do a lot, the example is small.

Thanks for the link to SubEthaSMTP. Custom sender, recipient and message handlers are definitely on the roadmap. Connection limits and configuration of "all the things" are too, but I'm not too sure how to implement them yet. I'll have a look at SubEthaSMTP's source to see how it's done there.

EHLO,

Author here. This library is in early development and there's a lot to be done. However, I'd love to hear what you think of it and how it can be improved.

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