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 From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" Organization: I need more of this! To: "Max Bowsher" Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:22:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: The Choices Are Exim, Exim and, er, Exim... CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <408BD7C5.32003.D27D636@localhost> In-reply-to: <003801c42acf$83dcd0a0$78d96f83@starfruit> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi Max, On 25 Apr 2004 at 15:13, Max Bowsher spoke, thus: > Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > Well, I don't suppose I need make too much more a point of my > > disappointment - seems Cygwin packages include only one of the four major > > MTas (Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Exim). Exim is the only one showing > > here. > > Sendmail or Postfix are my faves, and I want one of those. I've STFW on > > several terms suggesting ports of each of these to Win32 or Cygwin; I was > > shocked at a zero response. > .... > > Software gets packaged for Cygwin by volunteers. > If no one volunteers to create and maintain a package, it doesn't happen. > No one has volunteered to package {sendmail,qmail,postfix}. Therefore, > there are no cygwin {sendmail,qmail,postfix} packages. It's that simple. Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear enough, or perhaps you misunderstand - I would be the last person to use preprepared binary packages (particularly for Sendmail!). However, my entire search of the net seemed to turn up nothing that convinces me that any of those three MTas will work under Cygwin. Only Exim has comprehensive review and acknowledgement from its author for Cygwin. I am asking list members their opinions on whether they have had success with any of these MTAs (though notably Sendmail/Postfix). Cheers, Sabahattin -- Thought for the day: Communist (n): one who has given up all hope of becoming a Capitalist. Latest PGP Public key blocks? Send any mail to: Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 (0)20 7,502-1615 Mobile: +44 (0)7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: -- 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/