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 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:07:32 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin Message-ID: <20040714150732.GW1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <401DE9E4.60E61FA2@dessent.net> <20040714013022.2CBDF85081@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <6.1.0.6.0.20040713222328.0335a278@pop.prospeed.net> <6.1.0.6.0.20040714102705.03334178@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040714102705.03334178@pop.prospeed.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 14 10:31, Larry Hall wrote: > At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: > >Larry Hall wrote: > >> 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. > > > >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. The cron postinstall script sets up a symlink to ssmtp if /usr/sbin/sendmail doesn't already exist. I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would be the same as to have a dependency to exim. And why should cron.README contain hints about how to set up ssmtp? That's the job for the ssmtp README, isn't it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/