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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:59:02 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: is there a sendmail ?
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Nicholas,

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:11:25AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> This has been discussed before, but I believe you first need to port
> bind and then you can use something like sendmail or qmail.

Actually, porting bind (at least 8.3.x) is the easy part.  This is thanks
to the work by Steven Biggs:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01419.html

The hard part is adding mkfifo() to Cygwin.  Without it, qmail, postfix,
and possibly sendmail (I haven't grep-ed the code) won't work.

Jason

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