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Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:
>>> at a customer's site, I would like to be able to send email from 
>>> bash scripts. The setup of the software is pretty standard: Usually 
>>> mail is sent and read using Outlook, and there is an Exchange server 
>>> lurking somewhere to do the job. What do I have to do in such an 
>>> environment in order to be able to send mail from cygwin?
>> You need to ask your admins for POP and SMTP access details of your 
>> exchangeserver,
> I guess in my case (sending only) I just need SMTP. Or is it necessary 
> that ssmtp.conf always contains POP too? And, AFIK, the access method 
> to the exchange server is not POP, but IMAP...
No need to ask the admins, you can lookup these settings directly in 
Outlook under Tools: Email accounts. It probably won't say anything 
about POP/IMAP but you can just do "telnet <mail server> POP" or "telnet 
<mail server> IMAP". If it responds with a server at the other end then 
you know it's up. I'd recommend IMAP and I usually just through that 
server name into Thunderbird and I'm good to go. You can enter the same 
settings into your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file too..
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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