Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/18/18:58:06
On 1/18/2002 5:46 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:26:39PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
> Hmm, did you actually *read* it?
To the best of my ability, I have. It looks to me that the MUA has to
call ssmtp to send an email. It cannot run as a daemon, on port 25, to
accept connections from MUAs. The man page says the -bd option is
unsupported and my experience from running it on the command line is it
does not work. It gives the error you cut out of my previous email.
If it doesn't work please tell me. If it does, please point me to a
post to the mailing list that describes how to make it work. The
experience that I have had with ssmtp (from reading the man page) is not
positive.
Kent
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