On 14 Jul, Robert R Schneck wrote: > > 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. > > You should have read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.60.9.README. > It tells you how to create the config file. It has to be done > locally.
Thanks. And from looking through old email, I found afterwards that there's something called ssmtp-config (it would be a nice thing to mention in the see-also section of the ssmtp man page). > Incidentally you don't need revaliases; it can be used if you want > different users on your machine to send their mail via different > mailhubs. Thanks, Robert. On Jul 14 12:45, Larry Hall wrote (to Corinna?): > > At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote: > > >I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would > > >be the same as to have a dependency to exim. > > > > Well, I brought it up since it explicitly creates the link to ssmtp. An > > easier alternative would simply be to check if ssmtp already exists before > > creating the link, though that might not work as well in the cases where > > both are being installed at the same time. > > > > This isn't a big issue but it would make things more complete/correct. > > Methinks that a correct approach (for a given value of correct) would > be to create the symlink in an ssmtp postinstall script. That's what > exim does, too. Creating the symlink in the cron postinstall script > was a hack at one point. I'd be happy to get rid of it. Sounds good. For cron to work properly, it must be able to send mail, so it has a weak dependency on *some* mail system. Tricky to describe, I imagine. I also imagine that if you choose to install "all", and so get both exim and ssmtp, whichever is installed first makes the sendmail symlink. I think that's interesting, too. One day it might be nice for packages installed via setup, to interact with the user - e.g. to ask if the current package should steal existing symlinks. BTW, I'm replying separately to Pierre A. Humblet about the exim permission error. Should I submit a patch of the ssmtp man page that fixes the two problems I noticed? (/usr/lib/sendmail mentioned instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail; no See Also mention of ssmtp-config.) I also noticed that the exim man page doesn't mention that it can replace sendmail, or that it creates a symlink to sendmail. In fact, it doesn't even have a FILES section. It's auto-generated from something else, though, so fixing that sounds awkward. luke -- 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/
