Hi. Essentially, I would probaly never utilize Cygwin as a production system. Actually, truth be told, I would never personally use Windows as a prodcution system. The thought just scares me. But I don't want to go there...
However, I do use Windows as a development system, where I test client-server scripts/programs using a lot of Open Source, some on cygwin, some outside of cygwin. I would want to test a REAL sendmail program for these development scenarios. Lastly, my professor REQUIRED us to use sendmail for our Perl CGI/DBI/mail projects. There was no choice in the matter. The code would be deployed on the college system, which is a Linux system. My development machine is a small tiny VIAO laptop running Windows XP. I would prefer to develop the whole application on my system, at a relaxing coffee shop, and sendmail will allow me to do that. Otherwise, I am forced to use the horribly maintained lab system. - Joaquin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:11 PM > To: 'Cygwin List' > Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail? > > > Joaquin wrote: > > > > I check the FAQ and I couldn't find any reference to this. > I noticed > > that exim is there, kewl!, but what about sendmail? Was there any > > work on porting this? > > > > BTW, I noticed that SFU3.5 seems to have a version of sendmail. > > Maybe you could elaborate a little on why you want sendmail. > To my knowledge there has been no work done to even begin > considering packaging sendmail for Cygwin, at least not > officially (i.e. supported by this mailing list, cygwin.com, > and the setup.exe program.) Someone, somewhere might have > done it and succeeded, but you're at the mercy of Google in > that case. Part of me really wants to ask why in god's name > you'd want to inflict the utter crapulence of sendmail onto > an otherwise innocent system, but that's really just being snide. > > If your intent is to use Windows+Cygwin+sendmail as a > production mail server, then you would be much better served > (no pun intended) running it on a native posix OS like Linux > or FreeBSD, as there is a significant performance and > security impact of emulating Posix under Windows. > > If you're just after 'sendmail compatibility' then both ssmtp > and exim provide symbolic links to /usr/sbin/sendmail. So > any script or other type of app that wants to just send out > email by invoking the sendmail command should work fine. > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
