I'm currently working on something which ideally would have a 'virtual' email system for mobile phones, in that a client's phone connects and gets a list of the possible email topics, and then when they chose which one they want the actual content is generated on the fly and sent as a body text.

This kind of dynamic content generation pretty much rules out any standard POP3/IMAP server, and pregenerating all topics would be extremely network intensive as it requires numerous HTML pages to be fetched, so I reasoned it made sense to implement the virtual server in Perl. I've searched CPAN, Perlmonks, and Google however and can't find any kind of Perl module for POP3 or IMAP servers.

I do know about the client modules, and the Net::Server modules, but I am surprised nothing exists to do the actual server-side of the protocols.

Am I overlooking something, or is this genuinely a wheel which has yet to be built?

In reply to POP3/IMAP Server modules? by Molt

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