Patrick B. writes: > Well, we do not plan to replace the working Solaris solution with a win32 > one, > it is an additional support for win32 because surprisingly, many people do > use > ms os/soft, especially in small to mid-size companys.
Only because they don't know any better. Nobody who's serious about running stable servers will want anything to do with anything written by Microsoft. >>> Courier MTA on win32 systems. >>> Does anybody have an idea of how this could work (if at all)? > >>No, it will not work. For many reasons. Forget it. > > Seems that one should be graceful for getting an answer at all because > other people in this mailing list probably don't even bother reading > a message if there's a 'forbidden word' like win32 in the subject. ;) > Anyway, if the only reason is that win sucks, I don't care; > I don't do this for personal entertainment. > Are you sure about your statement, did you ever hear of someone > who tried it and failed? > Could you please be more precise and list at least the most important > of those 'many reasons'? No filesystem-domain socket support. No hard linking support. No soft linking support. No named pipe support. Nothing like uids and gids. No POSIX signal support. No POSIX file locking support. One or two of these might have been implemented by Microsoft/Cygwin since the last time I checked. However, I doubt that everything that's needed to correctly emulate a POSIX system is there. Go ahead and try to run the configure script. Should be interesting to see how far it will go, before breaking. -- Sam _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
