Blackhole has always been able to handle unencrypted SMTP and for a long time it’s been able to handle encrypted SMTP via TLSv1.
One thing Blackhole hasn’t been able to do until the 1.7.0 release is handle STARTTLS.
In the past the STARTTLS command would cause Blackhole to return the standard 250 OK response but would continue to operate on unencrypted SMTP.
I wanted to fix this and do it properly, but this meant learning how to do so with Tornado, which itself proved to be tricky. I ended up deciding to go to my local coding spot - the pub and hash it out.
connection_stream
The first thing I had to do was refactor the code that created the instance of tornado.iostream.IOStream and tornado.iostream.SSLIOStream so that it didn’t actually do the ssl wrapping.
def connection_stream(connection):
"""
Detect which socket the connection …