From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27018 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 19:37:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27010 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 19:37:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eurus.primus.ca) (216.254.136.21) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 19:37:42 -0000 Received: from dialin-208-158.ottawa.primus.ca ([216.254.208.158] helo=derbyshire-a1) by eurus.primus.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #16) id 17YAuD-0003mY-0A for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:37:42 -0400 From: "Paul Derbyshire" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:27:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: (Fwd) Cron oddity Reply-to: derbyshire@globalserve.net Message-ID: <3D416CC4.3488.4B26A821@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg02101.txt.bz2 On 26 Jul 2002 at 11:36, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > 1. Consider installing 'mutt' using setup.exe. More installing...*sigh*...The big problem with Windows is that everything is self contained so everything is multi-megabyte bloatware. The big problem with unix is that nothing is self contained so you have to install one thing, find it doesn't work, install something else, install something else... :) > 3. If you don't receive mail within 5 minutes (more like 5 seconds), > then you need to troubleshoot your ssmtp and mutt setups. > Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/mutt*, /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp* (for example, > did you run /usr/bin/ssmtp-config?). Also, see the manual pages > for mutt and ssmtp... I did not run /usr./bin/ssmtp-config. I don't recall the ssmtp man page saying I should do so. I'm starting to think the documentation for some components of Cygwin could be improved a touch. -- 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/