I am looking for an SMTP server program that can accept email as text files in a directory rather than via an SMTP socket connection. In an application I am writing I want to be able to just drop files representing email messages into a directory where they are picked up and sent out by the SMTP server.
Something like the Mercury server which performs this exact function for Pegasus.
Is there anything like that out there for windows (eg win2k) ?
Try looking for scripts that do what you ask.
E.g., run as a service, looking at the directory. When a file arrive (wait a bit for it to finish writing), fire up a telnet to the SMTP port, feed it the file. (Assuming the header is the standard SMTP exchange info.) A good Perl hacker could do it in approx. 3 lines of code. Us lesser beings might take 40.
Hence it’s probably been done before. The main issue is it in a scripting language that your system can grok. (But if you don’t have Perl, get it and install it!)
So go googling with SMTP, Perl, etc. in mind.