Patrick Samson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a product which uses the command 'mail'. > I didn't find any /usr/bin/mail.exe in any > available package. > Does it mean that one have to install an email > package and do a cp or ln to the email client? > > The product just needs to do something like: > echo "$msg" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "$s" > > Amongst mutt, ssmtp, exim, pine, ... is there a best > equivalent to the conventional Unix mail command?
You need ssmtp or exim to actually handle the sending of the mail. "mail" in this case could be emulated with a sccript to create a header with "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the To: field, "$s" in the Subject field, put in a blank line, and use "$msg" as the mail body; and then send the whole thing on to sendmail (ssmtp or exim). Probably either exim or mutt-with-ssmtp could do this for you. Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
