On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 20:24:59 +1000 Michael Shannon said:
>>Yes indeed, but for those want a dedicated mailer setup on Windows, then
>>this is surely an valid option?
>>The installation manual doesn't state any objections to using any old
>>mailer on *nix,
>
>That's correct because the way SMTP is implemented in UNIX makes it
>possible for the mailer to co-exist with LISTSERV and still be a useful
>SMTP running on port 25, servicing regular mail services as well as list
>mail.
>
>This isn't possible under Windows, as Ben Parker previously pointed out,
>unless you force the SMTP to run in a non-standard fashion which will
>preclude it from being useful for anything else other than list mail.  It
>certainly wouldn't be any good as an external mail gateway as every other
>mailer on the Internet expects it to be running on Port 25.  In this case,
>LISTSERV's SMTP listener occupies Port 25 and it will only respond to
>LISTSERV-related mail and reject everything else.
>

And using the original quote, "turnkey solution", I would also state
that the hoops being jumped through disqualify it as a turnkey solution.
There are too many special configurations made, and too many things
don't work as normally expected.  To be turnkey, the N of count of
special configurations and the N' of things that don't work as normal
must == 0.  Not approximate 0, or approach 0, but be 0.

/ahw