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Re: is there a sendmail ?


--- Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> wrote:
> Nicholas,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:11:25AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > This has been discussed before, but I believe you first need to port
> > bind and then you can use something like sendmail or qmail.
> 
> Actually, porting bind (at least 8.3.x) is the easy part.  This is
> thanks
> to the work by Steven Biggs:
> 
>     http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01419.html
> 
> The hard part is adding mkfifo() to Cygwin.  Without it, qmail, postfix,
> and possibly sendmail (I haven't grep-ed the code) won't work.
> 

The last time I checked, mkfifo is in cygwin.din.  Or is that just a stub?

Cheers,
Nicholas

P.S. - Bind9 is turning out to be more of a challenge.  It seems like
there are some missing socket stuff.  I asked Conrad about it and he said
he'd look into it.

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