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: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:18:00 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin Message-ID: <20040715081800.GC19753@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040714234445.ABA0C84C1E@pessard.research.canon.com.au> <20040715010020.GA296325@Worldnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote: > 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? That's a good point. Yes, I guess ssmtp-config should do that, the same way as the exim-config script (perhaps you can just use Pierre's code. Would that be ok, Pierre?). I've prepared a cron package for upload with a postinstall script which doesn't create the /usr/bin/sendmail symlink anymore. I'll upload it as soon as Robert has prepared a new ssmtp package for upload. I've also added a few words to /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README about the dependency to /usr/bin/sendmail :-) > Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific > information in a man page? Well, from a user perspective it might be cool, but IMHO the original man page shouldn't be changed, unless it's a change which should be send upstream anyway. We have the Cygwin specific documentation in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (resp. /usr/doc/Cygwin in earlier releases) for a long time now. It should be not too hard to ask users to look there for Cygwin specific docs. 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/