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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 13:40:18 +0800
From: root AT A-46 DOT thu DOT edu DOT tw
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Subject: MTAs under cygwin
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Re the discussion of now getting an MTA to work under cygwin to
go with mutt, there are two minimal MTAs listed on the mutt page,
www.mutt.org. 

One, ssmtp, only sends mail to a mail hub, but is easy to build
under cygwin. One of the files assumes hostname takes the flag
-fqdn, but this is easy to change. In the install, it tests
whether the user name is root, or not. 

The other, nullmailer, runs as a daemon, but uses named pipes,
which cygwin doesn't support, apparently. However, if it is
possible for cygwin to run Internet daemons like logind and ftpd,
then it seems like it should be easy to get an MTA like
nullmailer going to. 

But that's about where my ability to see what is needed to write
an MTA for cgwin ends.

--
Greg Matheson  Chinmin College, Taiwan
lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw

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