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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Robert R Schneck Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20040714234445.ABA0C84C1E@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <20040715010020.GA296325@Worldnet> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-15-139-118.dialup.ziplink.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (CYGWIN_NT-5.1) Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >Luke Kendall wrote: >> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. > > exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config > script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts with > postinstall scripts. Hmmm. So perhaps the appropriate new behavior for ssmtp is to do the same thing, asking the user whether to create such a link in the ssmtp-config. I think so. Anyone else advise otherwise? Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific information in a man page? Robert -- 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/