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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:11:22 -0400
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From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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At 01:17 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote:
>On Jul 14 12:45, Larry Hall wrote:
>> At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote:
>> >I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though.  It would
>> >be the same as to have a dependency to exim. 
>> 
>> Well, I brought it up since it explicitly creates the link to ssmtp.  An
>> easier alternative would simply be to check if ssmtp already exists before
>> creating the link, though that might not work as well in the cases where
>> both are being installed at the same time.  
>> 
>> This isn't a big issue but it would make things more complete/correct.
>
>Methinks that a correct approach (for a given value of correct) would
>be to create the symlink in an ssmtp postinstall script.  That's what
>exim does, too.  Creating the symlink in the cron postinstall script
>was a hack at one point.  I'd be happy to get rid of it.


Capital idea!

Robert, can you add this to the next ssmtp release?


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