Agent

An agent is a standalone piece of software in Bongo, similar to a Unix daemon.

Agents in Bongo tend to be very specialised and light-weight compared to their Unix counterparts:
for example, a Unix MTA may speak SMTP, run a mail queue and deliver mail.

In Bongo, that is separated into three separate agents.

Bongo's agents

Bongo comes with several agents. These include:

• an [[SMTP]] agent
• an [[IMAP]] agent
• an antivirus agent
• a [[queue]] agent
• a Store agent
• a [[POP3]] agent

Writing your own

Check out the 'generic' agent (in src/agents/generic) for some information as to how you should write your agent.