Lars Appel wrote in part:
> Gregory wrote:
> > ... what would you say the value is of porting additional
> OSS to MPE?
<snip>
> What kind of mailer are you talking about? Oh, and while talking about
> email software on MPE... keep in mind that the Mutt client and Qpopper
> POP server are also available on MPE as "complements" to sendmail ;-)

I'm talking about an OSS / GPL email server. A few months ago, I was looking
for a free email server that would run on Windows 2000, to play with at
home, to run as a nice thing to have, but not to port or tweak its code. The
only port of sendmail I found was not free, which seems odd now that I say
it. I do seem to recall finding quite a few also rans, a few of which were
_mail, such as qmail and xmail. I did download xmail, and got it to run as a
service but got lost in the details of its configuration, and have not
gotten back to it since.

So, I'll use xmail as an example, although it is released under the GPL
(which apparently is not quite thing the same as OSS, or vice versa?). I did
not get the impression that it is a very active offering, based on what I
could see at its web site, http://www.xmailserver.org. While it looked
simpler than sendmail, I do not recall seeing anything in its feature set
besides its relative simplicity as compelling. So, I think that it would not
add much value to port this to MPE. Were I using it, and it was my lowest
common denominator (the only email server I knew), I might want to try
porting it for my own benefit. Or, I might port it for the experience of
porting. Someone who has ported lots of OSS might want to try it, just to
see how easy it is to port. But would any number of users actually benefit
from having xmail? Would it be an email server that someone might be
inclined to try, if they were not already familiar with it elsewhere? If
that number is small, then the number of people who might benefit from being
able to choose to run it on MPE seems even smaller.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

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