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