Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E71D291.44419E8D@swipnet.se> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:01:05 +0100 From: a12 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to use ssmtp ? References: <3E709153.ADF922AB@swipnet.se> <20030313143354.GC15611@pentek.com> <20030313144102.GK27047@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3E719C4E.17017359@swipnet.se> <20030314091435.GG2032@nbof> <3E71AA90.BFE9BAAC@swipnet.se> <3E71C604.5020407@isg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tino, Thank you for your tip about Blat. The following command in cygwin window sends mail: /cygdrive/h/blat/blat.exe file -t a12@mail.xyz.com -f sys@rrback -server mail.xyz.com -s "Subject" Marek Tino Lange wrote: > >>>I have fetched Blat http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html > >>>and an one-liner (b.bat) contains: > >>>blat.exe mpu.log -t a12@xyz.com -f AutoIT@rrback -server > >>>mail.xyz.com -log blat.log -s "Error detected in mpu_fh" > >>>(Of course xyz.com and mail.xyz.com are not real names). > >>> > >>>Now, I would like to send a mail using ssmtp, but I do neither > >>>find the required info in 'man ssmtp' nor in > >>>/usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.38.7/ > >>> > >>>More hints will be greatly appreciated. > >> > >>echo test|ssmtp -s test recipient@domain.com > > > The To: field is empty. How do I set it ? > > The Subject: field is empty. How do I set it ? > > How do I send a file ? > > Forget about ssmtp! Really. > As you just realize it's not easy to use and if you want to send files > it's not useable at all, since it has a limit of mails <= 4k size. > > Use either blat, which is really a cool tool and should work fine under > cygwin too. It has all you need, is stable, reliable, just great software. > > Or if you like to have something more like a real "sendmail"-wrapper > (just forwarding), you can easily write your own small wrapper in perl > or python, which will be better than ssmtp in just a few lines of code... > > I can send you mine as an example, if you're interested. > > Cheers, > > Tino -- 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/