Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:55:30 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Problems with cpantest mails Message-ID: <3B8E9A32.9414.13C6B27@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010830102333.A13298@redhat.com> References: <3B8E6694.10474.72C9D9@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) > Christopher Faylor schrieb am 2001-08-30 10:23: >On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:15:16PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>The mails sent off my system are corrupt: >>========================================= >>Von: Gerrit Haase >>Datum: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:10:03 +0000 >> >>Please cc any replies to cpan-testers@perl.org to keep other >>test volunteers informed and to prevent any duplicate effort. >> >>[...] >> >>If i look at the headres i see this: >>==================================== >>[...] >>From: Gerrit Haase >>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:10:03 +0000 >>~s PASS Bit-Vector-6.0 cygwin-multi 1.3.2(0.3932) >>KxThis distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testers >>effort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. See >>http://testers.cpan.org/ >>[...] >> >>Instead of the 'Subject:', there is aleays only '~s' >> >>I am on cygwin using the cygwin mailer ssmtp. >>cpantest uses Perl's Mail::Send module. > >I doubt that ssmtp would understand the '~s' construction for sending >email. That's a feature of 'mailx' style programs. Hmmm, then i'm using the wrong 'mail'? $ ls /bin/*mail* lrwxrwxrwx ... 127 May 11 15:40 /bin/mail.exe -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe* Aha, wrong name, Mail::Mailer thinks it is Unix 'mail' and not 'sendmail'. Thanks for the hint. I deleted the link, now it works. Gerrit -- gerrit.haase@convey.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/