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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:31:28 -0400
To: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin
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At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote:
>Larry Hall <xxx AT xxx DOT xxx> wrote:
>> At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
>>>luke DOT kendall AT xxx DOT xxx DOT xxx DOT xx <xxx DOT xxx AT xxx DOT xxx DOT xxx DOT xx> 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.


Correct.  The symlink created points to exim.


>> 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).


No, it doesn't.  This does raise a question about whether the cron package 
should list ssmtp as a dependency though.


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