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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:47:21 +0000 (UTC)
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References: <401DE9E4 DOT 60E61FA2 AT dessent DOT net> <20040714013022 DOT 2CBDF85081 AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> <cd251o$t1e$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040713222328 DOT 0335a278 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net>
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Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
>>luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au> wrote:
>>> I appear to have both exim and ssmtp installed; but I see that
>>> /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to /usr/bin/ssmtp.  Fair enough, if
>>> interesting.
>>
>>In fact, the ssmtp package does not create the sendmail symlink.
>>As far as I can tell, no Cygwin package sets up such a symlink.
>
> Actually, I can vouch for exim setting up such a symlink. 

But presumably not to ssmtp.

> Also, it
> appears that the cron package will create a link to ssmtp if one doesn't
> exist, even if ssmtp is not installed.

Sorry for the misinformation.  Maybe the cron package readme should 
mention how to configure ssmtp (or maybe it does already).

Robert


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