[Mailman-Users] Mailman

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Wed Apr 4 21:58:05 CEST 2001


On 04 Apr 2001 14:53:43 -0400 
Neil Cooler <ncooler at nandomedia.com> wrote:

>> It's windows 2000 that isn't compatible with mailman :-) (the
>> best part, is that mailman being 95%+ python, it could run on
>> windows with few modifications, but I don't think any of the
>> people able to do this would see the point and bother to try and
>> port it)

> How is this possible?  Is there an MTA which is similar enough in
> nature to sendmail to make this happen?

The MTA is not the problem.

The problem, what there is of it, is that Mailman is built assuming
a Unix-like process model (fork/exec UID/GID etc) and Windows
doesn't have those things.

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
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