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Date:	Mon, 10 May 2004 00:16:43 -0300
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Subject:	Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script
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On Sun, 9 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> jerzy szczudłowski wrote:
>
> > Since mailx package is not ported to Cygwin, and from time to time
> > someone miss it, I wrote short shell script that enables straight
> > compatibility with some programs which by default depend on "mail"
> > command (i.e. smartmontools). Since this is really simple script, it is
> > very limited. In example, it emulates only batch mode (actually, you
> > may type form stdin but there are no hints about headers), only few
> > options are avaiable (eascb) and recipient address must come at the end
> > of line (due to getopts shortcomings). But, what is actually important
> > here, you can type: "cat /var/log/syslog | mail root", just like on real
> > unices :)
> >
> > URL:
> > http://jedwab.net.pl/~jerzy/shell/mail.bz2
>
> Have you looked at ssmtp?

His script uses ssmtp. ssmtp isn't a mailx or nail replacement.

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