Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40234878.A73F3888@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:55:36 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail? References: <010001c3ec70$f38f8f70$c901a8c0@macross> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Joaquin wrote: > Lastly, my professor REQUIRED us to use sendmail for our Perl > CGI/DBI/mail projects. There was no choice in the matter. The code > would be deployed on the college system, which is a Linux system. My > development machine is a small tiny VIAO laptop running Windows XP. I > would prefer to develop the whole application on my system, at a > relaxing coffee shop, and sendmail will allow me to do that. Otherwise, > I am forced to use the horribly maintained lab system. But Exim provides a sendmail-compatible interface, and a symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Anything that expects to call sendmail from the command line should work fine with Exim, including all those perl modules. Even if you are doing something obscure that absolutely requires sendmail, then you should still be able to develop and test the other 99% of the app on your laptop with Exim, without any actual sendmail. The notion of requiring a specific MTA boggles my mind. Sure, require a sendmail-compatible MTA, fine, but needing a genuine sendmail? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/