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: <6.1.0.6.0.20040714140739.0333a9e0@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:11:22 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin In-Reply-To: <20040714171754.GY1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> 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> <20040714171754.GY1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:17 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote: >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. Capital idea! Robert, can you add this to the next ssmtp release? -- 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/