Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Have you tried the SMTP server that comes with Win2k? AFAIK fits all
> your reqs, and it's already there.

I wasn't aware Windows 2000 came with a outgoing SMTP server.  I'll look
into that.  Would you happen to have pointers on where in the overwhelming
pile of Microsoft documentation to start looking?

> There's also http://www.postcastserver.com/ (no experience, but looks
> like it is what you want, if you can't get the Win2k server going).

That is one of the ones I tried and gave up on.  It's a mess.  The interface
is fine and it supposedly does what I want, but it just doesn't quite work
right.  It's very slow and eats up a lot of CPU for no apparent reason,
can't deliver some messages for no apparent reason, and there wasn't a
obvious way to have it give up on messages after a certain number of tries,
clear them out of the queue, and send a error reply.

I have meanwhile found something called QK SMTP server.  It is supposedly
configurable to do exactly what I want.  It even has the additional nice
feature that after a configurable number of failed attempts to send a
message directly it can fall back on delivering it to other outgoing SMTP
servers.  That's what I have installed at this point.  The current problem
with it is that although the GUI interface has a checkbox for "Run at
Windows startup", it doesn't, or perhaps it tries and then craps out for
some reason without leaving any trace.  It seems to work well when I run it
manually after logging in to Windows, but that's no good long term.

> Other than that, a search for "sendmail windows" gives a number of links
> for Windows ports of the Unix sendmail program.

Ah, good point.  I had been using search strings containing "SMTP" and
didn't think of sendmail.


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