bugzilla inbound email interface on Windows

[David Miller]

news at merkleonline.de wrote:

> I have a running bugzilla (this is a great tool, thank you so much) installation on Windows. (I am forced to use Windows, sorry)...
> 
> Now I want to use the inbound email interface so that i can receive incoming email from the internet.
> 
> Is this possible on Windows (Windows 2003 server) ?
> 
> I can also install cygnus/gnu tools if they are necessary.
> (http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/win32install.html says that it does not work, but at the moment i do not see why)... Any details here ?

You have to be able to pipe mail into a perl script as it comes in.  I
have yet to see any mail server on Windows that can do that.  If cygwin
has its own version of sendmail or postfix, that may work, but no
guarantees.

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