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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail? Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:39:51 -0800 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-68-167-136-108.snvacaid.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 In-Reply-To: Brian.Kelly@Empireblue.com 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 > inability to *MANAGE*. In fact, being a technical guru can often be > career death in such places as the *can't do's* endlessly convince > themselves that the *can do's* can't "manage people". Which begs the > question - "WHAT DOES CHOOSING HARDWARE HAVE TO DO WITH *MANAGING > PEOPLE*????????" But they do it anyway. And of course when such > *beings* make such decisions, they do so with assumptions like "all > open source is BAD" (while their web servers are running Apache), and > the CHEAPEST thing is *GOOD* - Intel rather than Sun or HP. Oh, but we > can't run Linux because that's *bad* *unsupported* open source!! > > Then - their job done, and budget shot, they give a nearly impossible > task to their *inferior guru's* that really should only be done in a > Unix enviroment - enter CYGWIN. Of course it's *bad* open source, but > now the *manager* has promised his/her management that this new > functionality would be ready by week's end - without consulting the > guru's first. So cygwin is agreed to as a *temporary* solution (with > the understanding that temporary in such organizations could be two > decades instead of three). > > This is how a need for something like sendmail on cygwin could > conceivably come about - happens ALL the time. If they are so clueless as you suggest then one has to wonder why you tell them that you're running a Linux OS and using sendmail?!? Otherwise simply get exim and use it. Works fine. -- If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody. -- 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/