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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <mail AT sabahattin-gucukoglu DOT com>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: The Choices Are Exim, Exim and, er, Exim...
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:13:40 +0100
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Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> Well, I don't suppose I need make too much more a point of my
> disappointment - seems Cygwin packages include only one of the four major
> MTas (Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Exim).  Exim is the only one showing here.
>  Sendmail or Postfix are my faves, and I want one of those.  I've STFW on
> several terms suggesting ports of each of these to Win32 or Cygwin; I was
> shocked at a zero response.
....

Software gets packaged for Cygwin by volunteers.
If no one volunteers to create and maintain a package, it doesn't happen.
No one has volunteered to package {sendmail,qmail,postfix}.
Therefore, there are no cygwin {sendmail,qmail,postfix} packages.
It's that simple.

Max.


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