Mail Servers
This chapter is about one of Twisted's greatest strengths: running mail and news servers. Twisted includes modules that you can use to build SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and NNTP servers from scratch, which can be incredibly useful when you have a server application that needs to send, receive, or store email. Server email integration has traditionally required a heavyweight mail server, with a bunch of custom shell scripts to push and pull data between the mail server and your application. But by using Twisted, you can design a mail or news server that does exactly what you need, and that doesn't even require a separate process. This chapter shows you how.
Getting Started
- Getting Started
- Installing Twisted
- Installing from Source Files
- Adding Twisted Utilities to Your Path
- Using the Twisted Documentation
- Finding Answers to Your Questions
Building Simple Clients and Servers
- Building Simple Clients and Servers
- Starting the Twisted Event Loop
- Working with Asynchronous Results
- Sending and Receiving Data
- Accepting Connections from Clients
Web Clients
- Web Clients
- Downloading a Web Page
- Accessing a Password-Protected Page
- Uploading a File
- Checking Whether a Page Has Changed
- Monitoring Download Progress
Web Servers
- Web Servers
- Responding to HTTP Requests
- Parsing HTTP Requests
- Working with POST Data from HTML Forms
- Managing a Hierarchy of Resources
- Storing Web Data in an SQL Database
- Running an HTTP Proxy Server
Web Services and RPC
- Web Services and RPC
- Using the REST Architecture for Web Services
- Using a Web Client to Update Resources Through REST
- Enabling Web Services Using XML-RPC
- Calling XML-RPC Functions
- Installing SOAP Libraries
- Sharing Web Services with SOAP
- Calling SOAP Web Services
- Sharing Python Objects with Perspective Broker
Authentication
- Authentication
- Using Authentication in a Twisted Server
- Authenticating Against a Database Table
- Representing Users with Different Capabilities
- Using Authentication with Perspective Broker
Mail Clients
- Mail Clients
- Downloading Mail from a POP3 Server
- Sending Mail Using SMTP
- Looking Up the SMTP Server for a Domain
- Listing Mailboxes on an IMAP Server
- Downloading Messages from an IMAP Mailbox
Mail Servers
- Mail Servers
- Accepting Mail with SMTP
- Using SMTP as a User Interface
- Providing POP3 Access to Mailboxes
- Providing IMAP Access to Mailboxes
NNTP Clients and Servers
- NNTP Clients and Servers
- Listing the Newsgroups on a Server
- Downloading Usenet Articles
- Posting a Message to an NNTP Server
- Running a Basic NNTP Server
- Using NNTP as a User Interface
SSH
- SSH
- Setting Up a Custom SSH Server
- Using Public Keys for Authentication
- Providing an Administrative Python Shell
- Running Commands on a Remote Server
Services, Processes, and Logging
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