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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:19:33 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote:
> I have been playing with ssmtp, trying to set it up as my local mail 
> relay.  I would like to have it run as a daemon.  Is there a way to do that?
> 
> I tried postfix, but it doesn't compile out of the box (it doesn't know 
> what OS "CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2)" is) and it this is more of a 
> "lets see if I can get this to work" type of project, not something I 
> must get working.
> 
> From my reading of the man page it appears that ssmtp does not run as a 
> daemon, it needs to be called by MUA to send that mail.  Is this correct?

Ever tried `man ssmtp'?

Corinna

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