On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 06:34:52PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Christopher Faylor schrieb: >>You might check into how the netqmail does this: >> http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/ >> >>They don't seem to offer binaries, so I assume the licensing problems >>still exist. > >So we could follow Igor's suggestion providing the sources in the binary >package and compile it after download. > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01654.html >At least better than nothing. exim would need a comparative and simplier >MTA.
I was pointing you to netqmail to show that the licensing problem hadn't been solved. Since this solution would require the existence of gcc on the system. I don't think its worth the hassle. >I failed with trying to do some heavy processing with my new postgresql >postinstall script. The compile step in a postinstall script would need >to open a seperate console detached from setup.exe probably. Otherwise I >see no light. You're requiring a C compiler in postinstall? That's not very nice. >>Why not concentrate on sendmail or postfix instead? These days, I don't >>think qmail has anything over postfix. I use all three and prefer >>postfix. > >Well, if I had to choose, I would prefer exim over postfix, >(having both in production, with funky mysql vhosts and users) >and exim is already available as cygwin package. Ok, problem solved then. cgf -- 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/
