Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/02/15/04:04:09
I didn't want to send this to the whole cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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 server
under CYGWIN
(1) I want to use CYGWIN to allow me to use NMH to read email
on my TabletPC running Windows XP TabletPC edition - and to finally
allow me to get off Microsoft Outlook.
I want to read email on my TabletPC because, well, I *like* the TabletPC
even if it is not UNIX. And Linux does not yet run on the TabletPC and
preserve many of the useful TabletPC features.
(By the way, I do not want to run NMH on VMware on my TabletPC
because I have run VMware, in the past, and find that VMware is much
more of a hassle than CYGWIN.)
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 outgoing SMTP server is accessible.
b) I need to route email selectively: my company mail is not
supposed to go through my personal, non-company, ISP,
and vice versa.
In my limited understanding I require more than just connecting
to an SMTP server; I need a mail transport agent that can queue
outgoing mail for several different outgoing mail servers.
Why SendMail? Yes, I know just how horrible sendmail is.
I welcome advice on alternatives, such as exim or ssmtp.
The main reason I am interested in using SendMail on CYGWIN
with NMH is that NMH already has support for talking to SendMail:
in /usr/local/nmh/mts.conf, you can just say "SendMail", and it is
supposed to work.
Yes, that leaves the ugly job of doing a sendmail.cf;
but my configuration is simple enough that I can crib most of
it.
Now, I have never used ssmtp or exim. Are they really drop in replacements
for sendmail from the commandline / protocol level? (Not from the
sendmail.cf file level.)
I.e. if I configure NMH by putting the path to exim in the SendMail entry in mts.conf,
will it just work?
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