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Re: nail-11.11


On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Jari Aalto+list.cygwin-apps wrote:

> * Mon 2004-10-18 Harold Leatherman Hunt II <huntharo AT msu.edu>
> |
> | Could somebody actually run nail and tell me if it works?  I just need a
> | "looks like it works".
>
> Hm. I may be doing something wrong:
>
>     root@host:/tmp/ports# echo msg | nail -s test -r me AT here.com
>     Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Another thing from manual page:
>
>        ...
>        Nail immediately contacts the SMTP server (or /usr/lib/sendmail)
>        even  when  operating  in  disconnected mode.  It would not make
>        much sense for nail to defer outgoing mail  since  SMTP  servers
>
> I don't have sendmail, only exim.

IIRC, exim was supposed to create a /usr/bin/sendmail symlink in its
postinstall script...  Or was it ssmtp?  Does this mean that the symlink
should be in /usr/lib (that's where it seems to be on Linux, FWIW)?
	Igor
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