Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/18/11:11:31
Milton,
This has been discussed before, but I believe you first need to port bind
and then you can use something like sendmail or qmail.
Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Milton Calnek <milton AT calnek DOT com> wrote:
> I'd like to use be able to have an MTA under cygwin as well...
> I looked at ssmtp, but as I understand it, ssmtp can only send
> to an existing smtp server.
>
> From my laptop, I'm on so many different networks, and everytime
> I move, I have to reconfigure the outgoing mail host. I want
> to be able to sendmail directly from my laptop... any ideas on
> how to handle this?
>
> TIA
>
> In message <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E10AA62 AT ex02 DOT idirect DOT net>,
> "Harig, Mark A." writes:
> > You'll want to run setup.exe and install the 'ssmtp' package (under
> the
> > 'Mail') category, and you'll likely want the 'mutt' package, also.
> >
> > After you've downloaded and installed them, read the files in
> > /usr/doc/ssmtp*, /usr/doc/mutt*, /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp*, and
> > /usr/doc/Cygwin/mutt*. And, of course, there are the manual pages for
> > both: $ man ssmtp and $ man mutt.
> >
> > good luck!
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Adam_Waldman AT Instinet DOT com [mailto:Adam_Waldman AT Instinet DOT com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 10:13 AM
> > > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > > Subject: is there a sendmail ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > hi
> > >
> > > i am using bash to run unix like scripts on windows. I would
> > > like these
> > > scripts
> > > to send an email when the script fails. I heard tere is a
> > > cygwin sendmail
> > > but i cannot find it on your site.
> > >
> > > adam
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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