Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/06/00:20:44
Hi.
Essentially, I would probaly never utilize Cygwin as a production
system. Actually, truth be told, I would never personally use Windows
as a prodcution system. The thought just scares me. But I don't want
to go there...
However, I do use Windows as a development system, where I test
client-server scripts/programs using a lot of Open Source, some on
cygwin, some outside of cygwin. I would want to test a REAL sendmail
program for these development scenarios.
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 prefer to develop the whole application on my system, at a
relaxing coffee shop, and sendmail will allow me to do that. Otherwise,
I am forced to use the horribly maintained lab system.
- Joaquin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:11 PM
> To: 'Cygwin List'
> Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
>
>
> 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 sendmail.
> To my knowledge there has been no work done to even begin
> considering packaging sendmail for Cygwin, at least not
> officially (i.e. supported by this mailing list, cygwin.com,
> and the setup.exe program.) Someone, somewhere might have
> done it and succeeded, but you're at the mercy of Google in
> that case. Part of me really wants to ask why in god's name
> you'd want to inflict the utter crapulence of sendmail onto
> an otherwise innocent system, but that's really just being snide.
>
> If your intent is to use Windows+Cygwin+sendmail as a
> production mail server, then you would be much better served
> (no pun intended) running it on a native posix OS like Linux
> or FreeBSD, as there is a significant performance and
> security impact of emulating Posix under Windows.
>
> If you're just after 'sendmail compatibility' then both ssmtp
> and exim provide symbolic links to /usr/sbin/sendmail. So
> any script or other type of app that wants to just send out
> email by invoking the sendmail command should work fine.
>
> Brian
>
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