On 18 April 2001, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
<c948374-postfixstudent.dtu.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 03:58:40PM +0300, bicanyahoo.com wrote:
>
> > For the last couple of days, I've been trying to compile
> > postfix for cygwin environment on Windows NT. I don't know if
> > anyone tried before (haven't yet encountered), but anyway... I
> > think the main problem is that cygwin doesn't support fifo's at
> > the moment. May there be a replacement to fifos? What would you
> > recommend to implement instead? Could it be unix sockets?
>
> Alternatively, how about a pair of connected TCP/IP sockets on
> localhost?

    Actually, this question came up on the list a few years ago. I
don't remember the details, but at the time people found so many major
issues preventing Postfix from running on anything resembling Windows
(f.i. signals handling and IPC), that you shouldn't even bother to try.

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia

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