P O R T I N G SMTPclient was written with portability in mind. Additionally to overcome the system dependend characteristics SMTPclient uses a GNU autoconf based configuration scheme which tries hard to determine the information from your system via GNU autoconf tests. So SMTPclient already compiles out-of-the-box on a lot of systems. At least the following Unix/Compiler variants were sucessfully tested by the author in the past: System Platform Compiler Testhost Time SMTPclient ------------- --------- -------------- ----------- -------- ---------- FreeBSD 2.1.5 i586/166 GNU cc 2.7.2.3 en1 21.10.97 1.0.0 FreeBSD 2.2.1 i586/90 GNU cc 2.7.2 en3 21.10.97 1.0.0 SunOS 4.1.3 SS20 GNU cc 2.7.2 sunfi1 21.10.97 1.0.0 Solaris 2.5.1 SS10/41 GNU cc 2.7.2.1 sunti5 21.10.97 1.0.0 HP-UX 10.20 A9000/780 GNU cc 2.7.2 hpeickel15 21.10.97 1.0.0 IRIX 6.2 IP20 GNU cc 2.7.2 sgihalle13 21.10.97 1.0.0 Linux 2.0.29 i586/90 GNU cc 2.7.2 gw1 21.10.97 1.0.0 If your Unix derivate is not on this list, don't panic. As we said, SMTPclient tries to determine the information itself, so there is a good chance that it finds alternatives even for your system.