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Re: sending email from Cygwin


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.

> 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).

Robert


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