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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:26:39 -0600
From:	Kent Perrier <kent DOT perrier AT oneco DOT net>
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To:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt
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On 1/18/2002 3:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
 >On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote:

>>From my reading of the man page it appears that ssmtp does not run as a 
>>daemon, it needs to be called by MUA to send that mail.  Is this correct?
>>
> 
> Ever tried `man ssmtp'?


Why yes I have, the -bd option does not run the program in daemon mode.
ssmtp exits with "-bd is not supported by sSMTP sendmail. Use rSMTP 
under inetd instead."  I cannot find rSMTP in setup.exe nor in my 
install.  I am running cygwin 1.3.6-6

Kent
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