Need email server aid

[Alvin Thompson]

On 04/28/2010 08:43 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Hahaha, you have got to be kidding. How are you supposed to discover
> other devices via smtp to get peer-to-peer working? Oh, I know, push all
> that to the user just like making the user set up mailboxes per device
> or setup dns so that the things can get their messages. Let the user
> sort it out. Brilliant! This thing is so going to sell. Nah, I am all
> for a custom protocol + gui and http for remote control. Forget smtp.
> Maybe pop3 or imap but I won't make that a selling point.

Specious. You would have to resolve exactly those same issues if you 
used HTTP or a custom protocol. The only difference is that you would 
have to write any reliability code yourself.

>> As I mentioned in a previous post, J2EE would be too heavyweight for
>> this application. But yes, servlets and webservices can be decoupled
>> from the transport layer. They were designed that way, and you can use
>> any transport you want. You could use x-modem if you wanted.
>>
>
> Are your servlets/web services at all remote controlled via smtp or do
> you just send reports over smtp?

Trying to go off on another tangent argument again?