Ross Smith II wrote:
Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of
packaging up nail for this purprose?
It can't be that simple to port, or someone would have already done it.
Christ, I can't even untar nail to my Cygwin box as it contains a file named
aux.c.
Besides the aux.
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
"... In short, porting nail (or similar free software)
to Windows has an ill effect on that software. Don't do it."
My general response to arguments like that is: fuck 'em. I'll port it
just to be a thorn in the guys side.
Bravo!!!
Gerrit
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Sorry for all those glitches. I just took another setup.hint and modified it. I must
not have grabbed a "nice" one.
Thanks again for all the help,
Ross
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I've uploaded this but I made a few changes to the setup.hint file.
>
> 1) I removed the extraneous '@ chere' f
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:12:55PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 20 18:32, Ross Smith II wrote:
>> I don't understand this one. Exim as well as ssmtp both have a config
>> script which sets /usr/sbin/sendmail so that it points to the real
>> executable, if /usr
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:11:16PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>It's close but the SMTP_AUTH stuff still doesn't seem right. It only
>>offers "LOGIN" or "PLAIN". I chose PLAIN but I couldn't send email
>>using my non-SMTP_AUTH email server. I don't think any authoriza
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 20 18:32, Ross Smith II wrote:
> I don't understand this one. Exim as well as ssmtp both have a config
> script which sets /usr/sbin/sendmail so that it points to the real
> executable, if /usr/sbin/sendmail doesn't exists.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use /usr/s
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It's close but the SMTP_AUTH stuff still doesn't seem right. It only
> offers "LOGIN" or "PLAIN". I chose PLAIN but I couldn't send email
> using my non-SMTP_AUTH email server. I don't think any authorization
> should be used at all as the default or at least there
On Oct 20 18:32, Ross Smith II wrote:
> I've fixed the issues Christopher listed below, and a couple more. 2.3.0-2 is now
> available.
>
> It now defaults to using ssmtp. If you want to use SMTP, you will need to run
> email-config.
I don't understand this one. Exim as well as ssmtp both have
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:36PM -0700, Ross Smith II wrote:
>I've fixed the issues Christopher listed below, and a couple more.
>2.3.0-2 is now available.
>
>It now defaults to using ssmtp. If you want to use SMTP, you will need
>to run email-config.
It's close but the SMTP_AUTH stuff still do
I've fixed the issues Christopher listed below, and a couple more. 2.3.0-2 is now
available.
It now defaults to using ssmtp. If you want to use SMTP, you will need to run
email-config.
Package setup.hint:
===
@ email
category: Mail
requires: cygwin
sdesc: "Command line sending of email with at
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I tried this out and noticed three things.
>
> 1) Should SMTP_AUTH be set in /etc/email/email.conf? I don't think it
>is standard to use authentication for sending email. Shouldn't it
>be commented out?
Yes, it should.
> 2) The binary tar ball contains an em
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:12:10PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>I think this means that the package has the required three votes and
>is now ready for testing.
I tried this out and noticed three things.
1) Should SMTP_AUTH be set in /etc/email/email.conf? I don't think it
is standard to
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:51:52PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
>I want to contribute/maintain email.
>
>Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
>
>Package setup.hint:
>===
>@ email
>category: Mail
>requires: cygwin ssmtp
>sdesc: "Command line sending of email with attachments, optional GnuPG
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:45:10PM -0800, Ross Smith II wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>
>> I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT,
>> non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as
>> "mailx" (or nail, or whatever).
>
>Given that argument, ho
On Oct 18 08:42, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > Ross Smith II wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Also, given that
> > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=markup
> > > states:
> > >[...]
> > My general response to arguments
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> Ross Smith II wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Also, given that
> > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=markup
> > states:
> >
> > "On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail to Windows
> > and environments that
[snip]
> > Also, given that
> >
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=m
> > arkup
> > states:
> >
> > "On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail
> to Windows
> > and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't
> accept any
> > patch
Ross Smith II wrote:
[snip]
Also, given that
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=markup
states:
"On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail to Windows
and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't accept any
patches or suggestions that g
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'm sorry but, here again, we're talking about porting an AFAICT,
> non-standard package to cygwin when we're missing something as basic as
> "mailx" (or nail, or whatever).
Given that argument, how would a new program ever become "standard"?
> Isn't there anyone out
Christopher Faylor wrote:
[snip]
Isn't there anyone out there who can perform the dead-simple act of packaging
up nail for this purprose?
Sorry, can't be done: nail has a file called aux.c... the apocalypse
must be coming soon.
Harold
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:13:33AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Ross Smith II wrote:
>>I want to contribute/maintain email.
>>
>>Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
>
>Though I use nail for this, which unfortunately not included, please
>count +1 vote from me.
I'm sorry but, here agai
Ross Smith II wrote:
I want to contribute/maintain email.
Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
Though I use nail for this, which unfortunately not included, please
count +1 vote from me.
Gerrit
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I want to contribute/maintain email.
Canonical website: http://email.cleancode.org/
Package setup.hint:
===
@ email
category: Mail
requires: cygwin ssmtp
sdesc: "Command line sending of email with attachments, optional GnuPG"
ldesc: "Command line sending of email, optionally with GnuPG encryption
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