Harold L Hunt II wrote:
... In short, porting nail (or similar free software)
to Windows has an ill effect on that software. Don't do it.
My general response to arguments like that is: fuck 'em. I'll port it
just to be a thorn in the guys side.
Bravo!!!
Gerrit
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Ross Smith II wrote:
Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of
packaging up nail for this purprose?
It can't be that simple to port, or someone would have already done it.
Christ, I can't even untar nail to my Cygwin box as it contains a file named
aux.c.
Besides the
On Oct 20 18:32, Ross Smith II wrote:
I've fixed the issues Christopher listed below, and a couple more. 2.3.0-2 is now
available.
It now defaults to using ssmtp. If you want to use SMTP, you will need to run
email-config.
I don't understand this one. Exim as well as ssmtp both have a
Christopher Faylor wrote:
It's close but the SMTP_AUTH stuff still doesn't seem right. It only
offers LOGIN or PLAIN. I chose PLAIN but I couldn't send email
using my non-SMTP_AUTH email server. I don't think any authorization
should be used at all as the default or at least there should
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 20 18:32, Ross Smith II wrote:
I don't understand this one. Exim as well as ssmtp both have a config
script which sets /usr/sbin/sendmail so that it points to the real
executable, if /usr/sbin/sendmail doesn't exists.
Wouldn't it be better to use
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:11:16PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
It's close but the SMTP_AUTH stuff still doesn't seem right. It only
offers LOGIN or PLAIN. I chose PLAIN but I couldn't send email
using my non-SMTP_AUTH email server. I don't think any authorization
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:12:55PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Oct 20 18:32, Ross Smith II wrote:
I don't understand this one. Exim as well as ssmtp both have a config
script which sets /usr/sbin/sendmail so that it points to the real
executable, if
Sorry for all those glitches. I just took another setup.hint and modified it. I must
not have grabbed a nice one.
Thanks again for all the help,
Ross
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I've uploaded this but I made a few changes to the setup.hint file.
1) I removed the extraneous '@ chere' from
I've fixed the issues Christopher listed below, and a couple more. 2.3.0-2 is now
available.
It now defaults to using ssmtp. If you want to use SMTP, you will need to run
email-config.
Package setup.hint:
===
@ email
category: Mail
requires: cygwin
sdesc: Command line sending of email with
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:36PM -0700, Ross Smith II wrote:
I've fixed the issues Christopher listed below, and a couple more.
2.3.0-2 is now available.
It now defaults to using ssmtp. If you want to use SMTP, you will need
to run email-config.
It's close but the SMTP_AUTH stuff still
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:51:52PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
I want to contribute/maintain email.
Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
Package setup.hint:
===
@ email
category: Mail
requires: cygwin ssmtp
sdesc: Command line sending of email with attachments, optional GnuPG
ldesc:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:12:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
I think this means that the package has the required three votes and
is now ready for testing.
I tried this out and noticed three things.
1) Should SMTP_AUTH be set in /etc/email/email.conf? I don't think it
is standard to
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I tried this out and noticed three things.
1) Should SMTP_AUTH be set in /etc/email/email.conf? I don't think it
is standard to use authentication for sending email. Shouldn't it
be commented out?
Yes, it should.
2) The binary tar ball contains an empty
[snip]
Also, given that
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEADview=m
arkup
states:
On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail
to Windows
and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't
accept any
patches or suggestions
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Ross Smith II wrote:
[snip]
Also, given that
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEADview=markup
states:
On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail to Windows
and environments that make Windows
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:45:10PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT,
non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as
mailx (or nail, or whatever).
Given that argument, how would a
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
Ross Smith II wrote:
I want to contribute/maintain email.
Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
Though I use nail for this, which unfortunately not included, please
count +1 vote from me.
I'm sorry but, here again, we're
Christopher Faylor wrote:
[snip]
Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of packaging
up nail for this purprose?
Sorry, can't be done: nail has a file called aux.c... the apocalypse
must be coming soon.
Harold
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT,
non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as
mailx (or nail, or whatever).
Given that argument, how would a new program ever become standard?
Isn't there anyone out there
Ross Smith II wrote:
[snip]
Also, given that
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEADview=markup
states:
On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail to Windows
and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't accept any
patches or suggestions that go
Ross Smith II wrote:
I want to contribute/maintain email.
Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
Though I use nail for this, which unfortunately not included, please
count +1 vote from me.
Gerrit
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