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Author jkew
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Date 2003-01-17.16:11:21
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I use Roundup on WinNT, although we haven't enabled 
the mail gateway (we do have Roundup send out nosy 
emails, but we don't support email into Roundup).

Richard is correct in saying that most of the installation 
steps are identical in Windows and Linux.

The difficulty is in setting up the email gateway.

The windows Scheduler service isn't really ideal for this -
- it's more intended for "daily at midnight" activities 
than "every 10 minutes". It also varies between Win32 
OSes: NT etc have an "at" command which is similar, but 
more limited, than the Unix version. Win9x etc only 
have a graphical interface.

Ways around this are:
* write a script which at can call which resubmits itself 
to at
* use one of the various shareware/freeware cron 
replacements for Windows (a Google for WinCron will 
throw up several, one of which is freeware)

There's a pycron32 project on Sourceforge, run by 
Jürgen Hermann, which sounds ideal -- a Windows cron 
implementation in Python -- but which hasn't released 
anything. I suspect he's busy elsewhere...

If we ever get around to getting the email gateway 
running here (it's on my list of things to do but at low 
priority) I'll try and throw together some more formal 
documentation.
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