Re: sending email from Cygwin

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

At 10:18 AM 7/15/2004 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 15 01:39, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>> 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?
>
>That's a good point.  Yes, I guess ssmtp-config should do that, the same
>way as the exim-config script (perhaps you can just use Pierre's code.
>Would that be ok, Pierre?).

Sure. Let me know if you improve it.

Pierre


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