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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: sending email from Cygwin
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:39:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Luke Kendall wrote:
>> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. 
>
> exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific exim-config
> script under explicit user control. That avoids possible conflicts with
> postinstall scripts.

Hmmm.  So perhaps the appropriate new behavior for ssmtp is to do the 
same thing, asking the user whether to create such a link in the 
ssmtp-config.  I think so.  Anyone else advise otherwise?

Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific 
information in a man page?

Robert


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