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From: "Kevin Wright" <kevin AT wright DOT org>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 08:03:17 -0800
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Corinna,

I've compiled sendmail in the past. It wasn't easy and after I
compiled it, I didn't know what to do with it :-) I have no
experience using sendmail and it's not the most user-friendly
program. I think Dr. Volker Zell has also done this and would
have far more expertise in this area.

--Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 7:26 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Fetchmail is available on Cygwin
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:39:54AM -0500, David Bush wrote:
> > I found a reference to this on the gnu.emacs.vm.info newsgroup.
> > 
> > http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Fetchmail, mutt, sSMTP, a/pspell, and GnuPG.  Requires Cygwin to run.
> 
> mutt is in the base distro, ssmtp too (from today on), fetchmail builds
> OOTB under Cygwin.
> 
> The problem is that fetchmail isn't _that_ useful without sendmail and
> procmail. These two packages are the problem. They have no autoconf
> generated configure script but instead some home brew script to
> configure the build process. These scripts are not Cygwin friendly.
> I'm still hopefully waiting for volunteers...
> 
> Corinna
> 
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