At 12:47 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: >Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 10:16 PM 7/13/2004, you wrote: >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Correct. The symlink created points to exim. >> 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). No, it doesn't. This does raise a question about whether the cron package should list ssmtp as a dependency though. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
