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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:39:45 +0200
From: "Frank Fesevur" <ffes AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Mail and Exchange Server
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2008/5/19 Ronald Fischer wrote:
> 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?
>
> 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?

Have you tried the cygwin "email" package? It talks directly to an SMTP server.

Regards,
Frank

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