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Re: sending email from Cygwin


At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
>luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au <luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.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.  Also, it
appears that the cron package will create a link to ssmtp if one doesn't
exist, even if ssmtp is not installed.



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