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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Robert R Schneck Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <401DE9E4.60E61FA2@dessent.net> <20040714013022.2CBDF85081@pessard.research.canon.com.au> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-15-136-136.dialup.ziplink.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (CYGWIN_NT-5.1) luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > I appear to have both exim and ssmtp installed; but I see that > /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to /usr/bin/ssmtp. Fair enough, if > interesting. In fact, the ssmtp package does not create the sendmail symlink. As far as I can tell, no Cygwin package sets up such a symlink. > I also see that my /etc/ssmtp directory is completely empty. Someone > on the list mentioned /usr/local/exim/README.Cygwin, but there is no > /usr/local/exim directory on my machine. You should have read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.60.9.README. It tells you how to create the config file. It has to be done locally. Incidentally you don't need revaliases; it can be used if you want different users on your machine to send their mail via different mailhubs. Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/