On 04-Sep-2001 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > I had a hard time setting up xmail after bulding it in a > few minutes because the documentation is *very* hard to > read. I'm no native english speaker and sometimes it was > very difficult to figure out what is needed to be done. > So please, please try to make the docs more readable. > Maybe put the source in texi format so that it will be > easy to make a nice HTMLpage of it, or split it up into > nodes with texi2html. Look, when You deal with GPL stuff You can : 1) get it as good as it gets 2) improve it and post Your work under GPL I like to work on GPL stuff coz it relaxes me and writing documentation does not relax me, it make me feel at work :) Probably it'll be done but it's not among my /fun stuff. > The second wish is: > I use often cygwin on my N"T boxes and i would like to > see a port of xmail to cygwin. > It should be pretty simple since you already support > Windows and Linux an Cygwin is nothing else than Linux on > Windows. Why should You add another layer between the application and the kernel ? Cygwin simply maps unix-style socket calls to Win32 socket calls and, by saying it in general, maps unix-style system calls to the corresponding Win32. Why should You do that ? Run XMail as a service and access it through TCP/IP, that's the right thing to do. Though You can access MAIL_ROOT/* files from cygwin programs through //drive/... Anyway, it's not that running XMail in a unix-style environment will make it more stable. With Cygwin You still have NT ( and more crap built on top of it ) behind. I've a question for NT/2K users : What's the maximum uptime You've had with Your NT servers running XMail ? - Davide
