in reply to Best module to implement smtp-like protocol over sockets?
POE is great and its docs are getting better; sorry I can't point you to a specific sub-class. Also consider picking up a copy of Stein's Network Programming with Perl (I think he put all the code from the book online somewhere). You'll learn more about the guts that way. I was able to write a daemon chat server in a couple of days after picking it up.
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