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<h1>About Lamson</h1>
<p>Lamson started more than a year ago as a fun side project of <a href="http://zedshaw.com/">mine</a>
after a few evil experiences with sendmail and various mailing list software. I
realized that e-mail systems didn’t have anything like a modern “framework” for building
applications. Rather than replicate the mess of aliases, pipes, processes, and nasty m4
macros that currently existed, I decided to write something different.</p>
<p>Lamson was originally called “Son Of Sam”, but that name proved too difficult to work
with as a project name. Apparently people don’t like their software named after serial
killers (actually, that was his dog’s name).</p>
<p>“Lamson Tubes” is a colloquial name for Pneumatic Tubes which were used last century to
deliver mail, packages, and hazardous material to the corporate world. They are still
in use today.</p>
<p>Now Lamson is a fully functioning <span class="caps">SMTP</span> server, relay, proxy, and e-mail application framework.
It supports most <span class="caps">RDBMS</span>, has templates, and is easy to manage and deploy. Lamson is smarter
than most any e-mail processing system out there thanks to Python.</p>
<p>However, as great as Lamson is for processing email intelligently, it isn’t the best solution
for delivering mail. There is 30+ years of <span class="caps">SMTP</span> lore and myth stored in the code of mail
servers such as <a href="http://www.postfix.org/">Postfix</a> and <a href="http://www.exim.org/">Exim</a> that would
take years to replicate and make efficient. Being a practical project, Lamson defers to much
more capable <span class="caps">SMTP</span> servers for the grunt work of getting the mail to the final recipient.</p>
<p>I currently use Lamson in my own work, but I’m always looking for people doing
interesting things with e-mail. Even if you’re a spammer, or someone trying to
destroy the spammers, I want to hear from you.</p>
<p>If you’ve got something interesting, feel free to <a href="/contact.html">contact me</a> and
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