Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/07/13:05:01
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 06:34:52PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
>Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>You might check into how the netqmail does this:
>> http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/
>>
>>They don't seem to offer binaries, so I assume the licensing problems
>>still exist.
>
>So we could follow Igor's suggestion providing the sources in the binary
>package and compile it after download.
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01654.html
>At least better than nothing. exim would need a comparative and simplier
>MTA.
I was pointing you to netqmail to show that the licensing problem hadn't
been solved. Since this solution would require the existence of gcc on
the system. I don't think its worth the hassle.
>I failed with trying to do some heavy processing with my new postgresql
>postinstall script. The compile step in a postinstall script would need
>to open a seperate console detached from setup.exe probably. Otherwise I
>see no light.
You're requiring a C compiler in postinstall? That's not very nice.
>>Why not concentrate on sendmail or postfix instead? These days, I don't
>>think qmail has anything over postfix. I use all three and prefer
>>postfix.
>
>Well, if I had to choose, I would prefer exim over postfix,
>(having both in production, with funky mysql vhosts and users)
>and exim is already available as cygwin package.
Ok, problem solved then.
cgf
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