From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: RE: Slow, slow, quick quick slow...
30 Jan 1997 22:11:43 -0800
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Hi, you wrote:

:  - Is there anything that is *known* to be problematic when trying to use
:    sockets under cygwin? In particular I am getting errors that I can only
:    attribute to missing declarations. Whether this is because of a missing
:    include path or that the declarations just don't exist I am not sure.

Can you tell us what's missing?
I had problems, not due to delcarations, as compile went fine, but the
linker complained about ntohl() etc., depending upon optimizing or not.

:    Anyway its beginning not to matter since I don't have enough time to
:    get the socket++ library working at the moment, I'm going to have to
:    rely on other win32 smtp clients that can be run through system() type
:    calls. (unless sendmail is easy *ha!* to recompile)

Simplest is possibly speaking SMTP yourself to TCP port 25 of an wellknown,
nearby gateway, then you can ignore MX records and all that.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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