> You > could send the strace file along to the list if it's not too big > but unless it's clear where there's a problem just by looking at > it, I certainly won't be able to help that much. I don't have W2K3 > Server (or any Server) so I can't really debug this. Did you try > Mark Bohlman's suggestion? I am afraid the strace file is really huge, I would not send it in a mail. I did look at Mark Bohlman's suggestions, but I could not find anything wrong. The funny thing from the strace file is, that there is no reference at all to the ssmtp program: it seems not even to try start it up. I also did a strace on XP, and there I can see that ssmtp is called, and eventually successfully started. For the rest: I tested it with all the rights I could find, as a local administrator. No luck... Gert de Boer -- 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/