Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Smtp server Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:50:46 -0700 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3F917D76.1020108@DeFaria.com> References: <003a01c39597$a7f16000$5b08c69b@irsl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en,ru In-Reply-To: <003a01c39597$a7f16000$5b08c69b@irsl.org> Kris Thielemans wrote: > Hi, > > I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I would appreciate if somebody > could tell me if it's easy to set-up an smtp server (included in > cygwin distrib) on my own PC. (I'll be travelling and won't be able to > use my regular smtp server as it doesn't allow access to external IP > numbers). exim. > Of course, if it's very easy, then I'd like to know how :-) See exim.org. > (Ideally, even Outlook would talk to it, but I'd be happy with pine or > so). Any standards compliant mailer shouldn't have any trouble. See also the uw-imap package which includes both imap and ipop. That with inetutils and setting up inetd should get you set up OK. (Of course running a mail server requires a static IP...) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/