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Re: sendmail


On 17 Dec 2000, at 1:49, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> <16 Dec 2000, 16:32 Uhr wars, als Stephen C. Biggs folgendes schrub:>
> < Re: sendmail >
> 
> > I also have it ported...
> > 
> > I can't get bind to compile... bind 8.2.2 patchlevel 7 needs too much 
> > from ipv6... the bind that is offered on the cygwin web site is binary 
> > only and this completed my port of sendmail, but I don't trust 
> > something that I can't compile myself...
> 
> The bind binary is not o.k., i didn't get perl compiled with libbind.a
> Too much undefined references.
> 
> > Besides, why use sendmail when Mercury/32 works like a champ 
> > and does pretty much all that you should want...
> > 
> 
> Am i able to use Mercury on cygwin? Well, there are some other mail 
> programs for cygwin available (i think so, didn't search for), but i 
> like sendmail, i tried to build it on cygwin, but i failed.

No, you can use it on vanilla Windoze... isn't that your base OS?  
Unless I am mistaken, you can't boot directly into Cygwin because it 
runs on top of Windows, so why not run this also... It really does the 
job, going directly to the other SMTP server just like sendmail... 

> 
> Are there alternative programs which could be built on cygwin with less 
> problems, maybe some where is a configure included?
> 
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