The Choices Are Exim, Exim and, er, Exim...

Sun Apr 25 14:13:00 GMT 2004

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. Well, maybe not - mail delivery is a UNIX 
affair (something I plan to change in future :-) ). Well, I found a lot 
of blabber about Sendmail in 2000, and more articles before this in '99 in 
cygwin-apps on an experimental and highly dodgy port of Sendmail. I 
suppose, then, that this port is finished, but I see no mention of it. 
I'll say that my searches for packages have been in the provided packages 
with the search feature at cygwin.com - google could well have missed 
something.
What have people's experience been with any of these transports? I've 
pushed Mercury/32 to its actual limits now, in my desire for serious 
advancement in the MTA department. (Search for my name and you'll see why 
this is so.) While I appreciate the issue surrounding fundamentally the 
idea that mail delivery is for UNIX, I honestly think Cygwin should make 
that barrier less apparent - it is, after all, just another UNIX. I can't 
offer a hand in porting anything (not to my knowledge, anyway, 
particularly as Cyg isn't installed yet :-) ), and since one of the 
purposes of setting up Cygwin in the first place on this Windows box was 
to introduce a UNIX MTA whose config data could be exported out to BSD or 
Linux later when either was installed on the smaller machine I have, the 
use of Cygwin rather depends on one (a fave MTA) being available.
Any ideas, recommendations, advice, suggestions, websites, news? Much 
appreciated!
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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