[JDEV] "smtp transport" -- does that mean

[Chris Wilkes]

> On Tuesday 03 December 2002 08:02 am, Darrell Berry wrote:
> a) you can send email from jabber clients, or
>
> b) replacing normal jabber port and protocols with client and
> server-side plugins which sends each well-formed chunk of a stream as a
> plausible RFC-compliant email (and thus stands a chance of getting
> through many circuit-level firewalls?)
>
> ok, it wouldn't be that exciting, but its an inetresting idea...
>
> can anyone enlighen me if anything like (b) exists?

I wrote a Jabber <-> SMTP bridge, writeup is at
http://ladro.com/jabber/jsmtp.html

In a nutshell: you can send email to an account of yours that triggers a
Jabber session to a jabber server, sending as a return your email
address like "smtpuser%stmpdomain.com at myjabberserver.com" to which the
person can reply to.

It just copies the body of the email to the body of the jabber message
and vice versa.

The instructions are for Qmail as I know how to easily call external
programs from a .qmail-extension file.  It should work for other MTAs.

Chris