I generally use mutt on the command line ssmtp must still be configured and you need to answer YES to linking sstmp to sendmail
$ mutt -x -s "the subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mutt -x -s "the subject" -a "/path/to/file/to/attach" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ (uuencode afile afile) | mutt -x -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc,etc see the mutt page on the web for more info. I often use cygwin mutt to read my exchange mail via imap when other email clients aren't available. reid On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:28 +0000, Ronald Fischer wrote: > Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes: > > > > at a customer's site, I would like to be able to send email from > > > bash scripts. The setup of the software is pretty standard: Usually > > > mail is sent and read using Outlook, and there is an Exchange server > > > lurking somewhere to do the job. What do I have to do in such an > > > environment in order to be able to send mail from cygwin? > > > > You need to ask your admins for POP and SMTP access details of your > > exchangeserver, > > I guess in my case (sending only) I just need SMTP. Or is it necessary > that ssmtp.conf always contains POP too? And, AFIK, the access method > to the exchange server is not POP, but IMAP... > > > then you'd probably enter those details into your > > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf (or equivalent depending what mailer you're using). > > Is there a simpler command line utility for sending mail - I mean, > simpler than ssmtp -, which you could recommend? > > > > I thought this is such a common setup that there must be somewhere a > > > "howto" for this subject, but I searched the Cygwin FAQ, the Cygwin > > > User Guide, and /usr/doc/cygwin without success. Isn't there a Cygwin > > > utility which simply uses the settings in Outlook to send the mail? > > > > Nope. It's not like Microsoft have documented how any of that stuff is > > stored, after all. > > And since Cygwin is mostly ports of Linux stuff, and > > Linux doesn't have any such things as outlook or exchange server, none of > > the linux software that gets ported is written to even consider it. > > Understandable... > > Thanks a lot, > > Ronald Fischer > > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/
