AG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NMH can be configured to send email directly to an SMTP server,
but this is not sufficient to meet my needs
a) this is a TabletPC, a mobile device, which frequently is not
connected. I.e. outgoing mail needs to be queued and sent
later when the
Sounds to me like you want to read up on exim http://www.exim.org/ to
see what it can do and if it will work for you. Discussion of exim's
capabilities compared to sendmail is really off-topic for this list.
Agreed.
But as I responded to Brian earlier in private email:
a bit of googling
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0800, AG wrote:
Sounds to me like you want to read up on exim http://www.exim.org/ to
see what it can do and if it will work for you. Discussion of exim's
capabilities compared to sendmail is really off-topic for this list.
Agreed.
But as I responded to Brian
I didn't want to send this to the whole [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list,
but when I googled for cygwin sendmail Brian's email asking why
in the world anyone would want to run sendmail on cygwin came up
first.
Here's why I am interested:
(0) I am *not* interested in running a production mail
But Exim provides a sendmail-compatible interface, and a
symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Anything that expects to call
sendmail from the command line should work fine with Exim,
including all those perl modules. Even if you are doing
something obscure that absolutely requires sendmail, then
Joaquin wrote:
But Exim provides a sendmail-compatible interface, and a
symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Anything that expects to call
sendmail from the command line should work fine with Exim,
including all those perl modules. Even if you are doing
something obscure that absolutely
Joaquin wrote:
Lastly, my professor REQUIRED us to use sendmail for our Perl
CGI/DBI/mail projects. There was no choice in the matter. The code
would be deployed on the college system, which is a Linux system. My
development machine is a small tiny VIAO laptop running Windows XP. I
would
a
direct replacement available under cygwin.
Why is this thread living on?
Thanks,
...Karl
From: Joaquin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Plausibility of sendmail?
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 21:26:57 -0800
On another angle for this discussion. Consider
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:31:02AM -0800, Karl M wrote:
There were some strong opinions expressed on both sides about whether
sendmail is a good thing or not...but the bottom line is that no one
has offered to maintain sendmail as a package under Cygwin. If you
want to do that, I don't think that
to use the horribly maintained lab system.
- Joaquin
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Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
Joaquin wrote:
I check the FAQ
On another angle for this discussion. Consider that for one M$ $FU 3.5
has sendmail. Before this many commercial solutions charging quite a
lot of $$ for sendmail under Windows. Microsoft even compiled a version
of sendmail for the earliest versions of Windows NT 3.51 long ago and
posted it on
Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cygwin.com on 02/02/2004 01:10:44 AM
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Subject:Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
If your intent is to use Windows+Cygwin+sendmail as a production
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to me you have not worked for many Fortune 500 size organizations -
where almost ALL your hardware and software purchasing decisions are made
by folks who *PRIDE* themselves on their *LACK* of technical expertise - as
if such were somehow evidence of their
: Brian Kelly/WTC1/Empire)
Subject:Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to me you have not worked for many Fortune 500 size organizations -
where almost ALL your hardware and software purchasing decisions are made
by folks who *PRIDE* themselves on their *LACK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone is crazy enough to want a production mailserver with Cygwin,
let them run Exim.
Point well taken. Having limited experience with mail servers in general, I
will certainly keep your advice filed away in the ole noodle for future
reference. Of course a
: Plausibility of sendmail?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone is crazy enough to want a production mailserver
with Cygwin,
let them run Exim.
Point well taken. Having limited experience with mail servers
in general, I
will certainly keep your advice filed away in the ole noodle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems to me you have not worked for many Fortune 500 size
organizations - where almost ALL your hardware and software purchasing
decisions are made by folks who *PRIDE* themselves on their *LACK* of
technical expertise - as if such were somehow evidence of their
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
If they are so clueless as you suggest then one has to wonder why you
don't
tell them that you're running a Linux OS and using sendmail?!?
They know that Linux is *open source* and *dangerous* - because that's
what the VERY political Server Team (who have sold out to
Joaquin wrote:
I check the FAQ and I couldn't find any reference to this. I noticed
that exim is there, kewl!, but what about sendmail? Was there any work
on porting this?
BTW, I noticed that SFU3.5 seems to have a version of sendmail.
Maybe you could elaborate a little on why you want
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