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Re: The Choices Are Exim, Exim and, er, Exim...
- From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <mail at sabahattin-gucukoglu dot com>
- To: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:22:45 +0100
- Subject: Re: The Choices Are Exim, Exim and, er, Exim...
- Organization: I need more of this!
Hi Max,
On 25 Apr 2004 at 15:13, Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> 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
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