Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Jeff Hu" To: Subject: RE: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:54:45 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 In-Reply-To: <3C48BB2C.4090601@oneco.net> Importance: Normal Kent, Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7.README. It explains you how you can coerce mutt into using it for sending mail. Then read /usr/doc/ssmtp-2.38.7/README about the limitations of ssmtp. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Kent Perrier Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:18 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt On 1/18/2002 5:56 PM, Kent Perrier wrote: > 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 Ok, so it appears that ssmtp will not run in daemon mode. Besides the NT apps blat or IIS, is there an smtp server that runs under cygwin? Kent -- "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm" -- George Orwell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/