You definitely caught me pulling a sensational quote from the Ubuntu docs, for sex appeal (I wonder if that's the first time such an act has occurred?) What I

You definitely caught me pulling a sensational quote from the Ubuntu docs, for sex appeal (I wonder if that's the first time such an act has occurred?) What I was shooting for was a very minimal library that could leverage Python's pretty killer standard email libraries -- as an example they do have wonderful RFC2822 support in their standard libraries. smtproutes is a very minimal library for people who want a bit more programatic composition than bash scripts, and less overhead than, say Postfix, dovecot, whatever.