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 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:04:57 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: qmail, DJB licensing Message-ID: <20041007170457.GC14536@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <41655E51.4040005@x-ray.at> <20041007152254.GL7398@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <4165702C.2080506@x-ray.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4165702C.2080506@x-ray.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- 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/