X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Email.conf error Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:00:16 +0100 Message-ID: <013401c6b0ab$0fc54300$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <44C68A82.2000608@awmi.net> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k6QC0g1o013781 On 25 July 2006 22:18, Andrew King wrote: > Thanks to René, I think I got my Cron problem fixed. For tester > purposes, I've got Cron set up to send me an e-mail once every minute. > Well, it sends me the e-mail, but the e-mail contains the following error: > > email: FATAL: Line number 7 is incorrectly formated in email.conf > > Caught an ERROR, Shutting down... > > As far as I can tell, everything is fine, but I've attached my email.conf Have you tried d2u'ing it? It really seems strange for it to complain about a comment line. You might want to take a look at it using "od -c email.conf" as well to see if any strange non-printing chars have crept in there. > file with the e-mail address and SMTP server address * out so I don't get > the crap spammed out of me. Sounds painful! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/