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Re: sending email from Cygwin
At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote:
>Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>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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