--On den 6 mars 2006 12.50.16 -0500 Dave <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> We were just notified LSMTP-Lite licenses are no longer renewed. Our level
> of traffic does not justify a full LSMTP license.
> 
> The sales representative said that 14.4 can run on the same box as any
> SMTP server, but the LISTSERV documentation specifically states this is
> not true.
> 
> Now we are in a bind: we have only one machine allocated to LISTSERV and
> now we need to find a second machine to dedicate to SMTP.
> 
> Can anybody confirm that LISTSERV still cannot run on the same machine as
> an SMTP server? Is our only solution now to set up a second machine for
> SMTP? If so I'm afraid that the IT department will resist and ask us to
> evalutate alternative products.

As far as I can tell, this stems from the fact that LISTSERV on Windows
includes its own SMTP listener, which is not the case on Unix, and thus the
limitation does not exist for the UNIXy versions of LISTSERV. I run
sendmail on my FreeBSD LISTSERV machine, for instance. It is possible that
a less opaque (less than IIS SMTP service, that is...) SMTP MTA like
sendmail or Postfix can be coerced to run on Windows under something like
Cygwin, and both should be able to listen to only specified interfaces. A
secondary interface sounds like a good idea, though. 
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