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Subject: RE: sending email from Cygwin
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:51:56 +0200
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Robert R Schneck wrote on Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:39 AM:

> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> Luke Kendall wrote:
>>> or that it creates a symlink to sendmail.
>> 
>> exim doesn't. That symlink is created by the cygwin specific
>> exim-config script under explicit user control. That avoids possible
>> conflicts with postinstall scripts.
> 
> Hmmm.  So perhaps the appropriate new behavior for ssmtp is to do the
> same thing, asking the user whether to create such a link in the
> ssmtp-config.  I think so.  Anyone else advise otherwise?

This is how other distos begin to deal with this problem (Gentoo already switched too):
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html#AEN30548

-- Jörg

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