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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040713222328.0335a278@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:25:42 -0400 To: Robert R Schneck , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin In-Reply-To: References: <401DE9E4.60E61FA2@dessent.net> <20040714013022.2CBDF85081@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: >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. Actually, I can vouch for exim setting up such a symlink. Also, it appears that the cron package will create a link to ssmtp if one doesn't exist, even if ssmtp is not installed. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/