On 1 Feb, Brian Dessent wrote:
> If you're just after 'sendmail compatibility' then both ssmtp and exim
> provide symbolic links to /usr/sbin/sendmail. So any script or other
> type of app that wants to just send out email by invoking the sendmail
> command should work fine.
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.
I also see that my /etc/ssmtp directory is completely empty. Someone
on the list mentioned /usr/local/exim/README.Cygwin, but there is no
/usr/local/exim directory on my machine.
What I was trying to do was simply to send mail into our local Unix mail
system from a shell script in Cygwin.
When I tried using exim like this:
exim -oi luke < /tmp/sample
I got this error:
set{u,g}id failed: 22
2004-07-14 10:48:44 unable to set gid=544 or uid=18 (euid=11021): privilege not needed
(Which I assume means the opposite: that some privilege *is* needed.)
When I tried using the ssmtp sendmail I got this error:
sendmail: Cannot open mailhub:25
which I assumed was because there was no ssmtp.conf file.
Is there a problem with Cygwin's install of ssmtp, in that it creates
no config? Or is configuration simply expected to be done locally or
manually? (From the man page, I see that there's supposed to be an
ssmtp.conf and a revaliases files, but not what they should contain).
BTW, I note that the man page for ssmtp mentions /usr/lib/sendmail,
which doesn't exist under Cygwin: /usr/sbin/sendmail does (good!).
I adapted Uwe Mayer's mail of Oct 6th last year, to produce an
ssmtp.conf file for our site:
root=admin
mailhub=smtp
rewriteDomain=cisra.canon.com.au
FromLineOverride=YES
The happy news to report is that following this, my simple mail
delivery test worked. I don't know what the /etc/ssmtp/revaliases file
is for, or what it should contain, but I thought I'd report these
problems and results in case they're of interest.
luke
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