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: <6.1.0.6.0.20040714102705.03334178@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:31:28 -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> <6.1.0.6.0.20040713222328.0335a278@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: >> At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: >>>luke.kendall@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx 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. > >But presumably not to ssmtp. Correct. The symlink created points to exim. >> Also, it >> appears that the cron package will create a link to ssmtp if one doesn't >> exist, even if ssmtp is not installed. > >Sorry for the misinformation. Maybe the cron package readme should >mention how to configure ssmtp (or maybe it does already). No, it doesn't. This does raise a question about whether the cron package should list ssmtp as a dependency though. -- 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/