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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:56:42 -0600
From: Kent Perrier <kent DOT perrier AT oneco DOT net>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt
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On 1/18/2002 5:46 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 05:26:39PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote:
> 
>>On 1/18/2002 3:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:56:43PM -0600, Kent Perrier wrote:
>>>
>>>>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'?
>>>
>>
>>Why yes I have, the -bd option does not run the program in daemon mode.
>>
> 
> Hmm, did you actually *read* it?


To the best of my ability, I have.  It looks to me that the MUA has to 
call ssmtp to send an email.  It cannot run as a daemon, on port 25, to 
accept connections from MUAs.  The man page says the -bd option is 
unsupported and my experience from running it on the command line is it 
does not work.  It gives the error you cut out of my previous email.

If it doesn't work please tell me.  If it does, please point me to a 
post to the mailing list that describes how to make it work.  The 
experience that I have had with ssmtp (from reading the man page) is not 
positive.

Kent
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