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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Smtp server
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:50:46 -0700
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Kris Thielemans wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I would appreciate if somebody 
> could tell me if it's easy to set-up an smtp server (included in 
> cygwin distrib) on my own PC. (I'll be travelling and won't be able to 
> use my regular smtp server as it doesn't allow access to external IP 
> numbers).

exim.

> Of course, if it's very easy, then I'd like to know how :-)

See exim.org.

> (Ideally, even Outlook would talk to it, but I'd be happy with pine or 
> so).

Any standards compliant mailer shouldn't have any trouble. See also the 
uw-imap package which includes both imap and ipop. That with inetutils 
and setting up inetd should get you set up OK.

(Of course running a mail server requires a static IP...)



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