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 19:17:54 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin Message-ID: <20040714171754.GY1389@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> <20040714150732.GW1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> <6.1.0.6.0.20040714123944.0333d638@pop.prospeed.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040714123944.0333d638@pop.prospeed.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 14 12:45, Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: > >I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would > >be the same as to have a dependency to exim. > > Well, I brought it up since it explicitly creates the link to ssmtp. An > easier alternative would simply be to check if ssmtp already exists before > creating the link, though that might not work as well in the cases where > both are being installed at the same time. > > This isn't a big issue but it would make things more complete/correct. Methinks that a correct approach (for a given value of correct) would be to create the symlink in an ssmtp postinstall script. That's what exim does, too. Creating the symlink in the cron postinstall script was a hack at one point. I'd be happy to get rid of it. > > And why should cron.README > >contain hints about how to set up ssmtp? That's the job for the ssmtp README, isn't it? > > Agreed. At most, it could contain a pointer to the ssmtp README. Going > beyond that isn't wise IMO. Yeah, that's fine with me. 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/