Re: Gnus (smtpmail/nnimap) on NT without Cygwin?

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Does anyone know what I need to install to get smtpmail and nnimap to
> work without Cygwin?
>
> The work I'm doing for a client required me to install their special
> version of Cygwin, which I foolishly did alongside my existing one.
> Thereafter, my SMTP mail sending began to fail.  Despite the fact that
> I have smtp-debug-info set to t, I get no *trace of ...* buffer.  All
> I see is (in *Messages*):
>
>   Sending...
>   Sending via mail...
>   message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 1
>
> So I decided to rebuild emacs without cygwin, and actually managed to
> figure out how to use MinGW and get an emacs with image support on NT!
> Fantastic!
>
> But smtpmail still fails in the same way.

Solved; it looks like my exim got updated and it was looking for an
executable with the wrong version number.  I didn't see an error
message that gave me a clue about the problem, though, until I went
into my nndraft:queue group and tried to send all messages.  Maybe the
regular mail sending process could be fixed to yield better error
messages.


> Furthermore, now my IMAP doesn't work either

That was a simple matter of getting cygwin back into my PATH.  

> I haven't tracked this one down yet but I'm guessing it's due to the
> lack of a non-cygwin openssl on my system.

I still would love to be cygwin-independent, to avoid this sort of
problem.  Does anybody know if openssl and exim can be had without a
cygwin dependency?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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