James wrote regarding 'RE: [ee] Sober.z response (lack) from Symantec' on Mon, Nov 28 at 15:27:
> > I use Mercury/32 on Windows when I need an SMTP server under Win32.
> 
> Would you happen to know if Mercury/32 has a "program deliver" mode where
> the MTA runs your app and sends the text of the email to it via STDIN or
> other means? The current MTA I use does this and it is how emails from the
> PICList email server get into the archive at piclist.com. Just writing out
> the emails to text files is also perfectly ok. Ahh... I probably don't need
> to know that at this point since I DO have a working mail server.

You can define an alias which can be a filename, a program, or a
daemon written using it's daemon protocol (which is documented and
supposedly not a huge deal for someone who's coded on Win32 before -
but I can't verify that).  You can also have filters trigger programs
to run (I'm not sure if the program can take the message as input) or
pipe the message through the daemon.  I can't speak to how well this
all works, as I basically just use Mercury for relaying most of the
time.

> Dspam sounds perfect. I'll check that out and thanks for the referral.

Sorry about it only being *nix-based.  I still think it'd run under
Cygwin, given some development time... :)  I run it on a 486, and it
handles all of the piclist traffic on top of a few thousand other
messages/day with almost no load.  Just in case you have an old
machine and decide to give Linux another shot. ;)

> > Postfix is at 
> > http://www.postfix.org/
> > Mercury/32 is at http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercwin.htm
> > Ubuntu Linux is at http://www.ubuntu.com/ ;) Cygwin is at 
> > http://www.cygwin.com/
> > 
> > I'm quite serious about helping, BTW.
> 
> Much appreciated. One thing that I would like to see some day is a *nix
> mirror of the piclist.com site (All 3Gb of it) where I could, perhaps, log
> in and dick about with things on /someone elses/ internet connection.
> Writing a cleaned up *nix version of the archive for example. And I've been
> wanting to do some stuff with text to speech using (Festival which is only
> available for Linux) for my dictionary project:
> http://techref.massmind.org/dict

Get ahold of me off-list with some details of what you're looking for.
I've got some bandwidth at home that I might consider sharing, since
the list *has* been pretty useful to me so far...

--Danny
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