Re: ANN: Basil -- Internet Message (email) and MIME library for Ada v 1.0

"Colin Paul Gloster" <Colin_Paul_Gloster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:Pine.WNT.4.64.0807221619570.3144@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Salutations to gentlemen in Chicago and Herlev,
>
> Please post again to news:comp.lang.ada with re****ts of how well the
> mail server has been working. After some experience, it might be
> worthwhile for various Ada organizations to replace the solutions
> which they currently use with the new mailserver software. It might be
> trickier for ACM SIGAda which uses the ACM's central ListServ system,
> but I suspect that the the smaller scale operations could readily
> adopt the option from HAFD Consulting.

For what it's worth, R.R. Software and most of the AdaIC functions have
been 
running on a primarily Ada mail server (and all Ada web server) for
several 
years. I use an ancient public domain mail server for local mail delivery 
(POP3) and an ancient mailing list program to handle the mailing list, but

all of the mail receiving, delivery, and spam filter functions are in Ada.

The question will be asked why it was never made available to the
community, 
and the answer is that it wasn't designed to be that -- it was intended to

be a professional grade spam filter and as such the *code* wasn't
do***ented 
much nor made very flexible. (In particular, there aren't any libraries
that 
could be used in other applications, although I'm sure parts could be 
extracted.) There's plenty of user-level do***entation, but that's it.
(It's 
also a Claw application, and as such fairly tied to Windows for its user 
interface.)

                                           Randy.