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Pierre, On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 07:30:05PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > I'd like to propose including exim, a Mail Transfer Agent > similar to sendmail, in setup. My vote is a *very* emphatic YES! I was going to contact you either to gently prod you into contributing exim or ask if I could do so myself. But, since you did the work, you should get the glory. :,) BTW, the latest exim (i.e., 4.10) builds OOTB under Cygwin. Thank you very much for your porting efforts! I would like to propose that you package using a more "normal" layout. See the attached exim.lst for the details. Please feel free to use the attach, if they prove useful to you: o build.sh: my exim build recipe o exim.sh: the "meat" of a exim postinstall script that creates the exim user, mail group, etc. Note that exim.sh was actually a record of the steps that I used when installing exim on my home PC, but it is still a good starting point. > The Cygwin port has been available for several months and seems > to perform well. However there are several packaging decisions > to make. Feedback from this list would be helpful. I will try to add only new information below... > 1) MTAs normally require a DNS resolver, such as bind. Instead Since I already had bind 8.3.1 installed, I built my exim against it instead of your minires. I don't know enough about bind to know the version 8 versus 9 issues. However, bind 8.3.1 builds cleanly with the following Steven Biggs patch: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00184/bind-8.3.0-T1A.CYGWIN.patch So, another alternative is for someone to contribute bind 8.3.1 (me, you, or Nicholas?) and build against it. bind could be upgraded to version 9 when it's ready. > 3) Exim comes with a number of features that require extra packages: > a) SSL/TLS (works fine) Yes. > b) Perl (works for Gerrit Haase on NT, crashes for me on Win98) Neutral. > c) SQL (untried) No. > 4) Similarly exim can support various mailbox formats (e.g. maildir) > and authenticators. I have not tested them, having no use for them. I vote for the extra mailbox formats. > Are there strong opinions about including untested and somewhat > obscure features? Not for me, just document what is untested in the README -- for example, this is what I did for fetchmail and SSL. Thanks, Jason
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