From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9093 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2002 20:04:02 -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 9086 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2002 20:04:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ex02.idirect.net) (208.226.76.48) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jul 2002 20:04:02 -0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: (Fwd) Cron oddity Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: , X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg02104.txt.bz2 The instructions to run /usr/bin/ssmtp-config are in /usr/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp*.README. There are three levels of documentation: 1. /usr/doc/Cygwin/* -- this contains Cygwin-specific notes. 2. /usr/doc/* -- this contains each package's additional notes. 3. manual ('man') pages and info files -- general user-level documentation. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Derbyshire [mailto:derbyshire@globalserve.net] > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 3:38 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: (Fwd) Cron oddity >=20 >=20 > On 26 Jul 2002 at 11:36, Harig, Mark A. wrote: >=20 > > 1. Consider installing 'mutt' using setup.exe. >=20 > More installing...*sigh*...The big problem with Windows is that=20 > everything is self contained so everything is multi-megabyte=20 > bloatware. The big problem with unix is that nothing is self=20 > contained so you have to install one thing, find it doesn't work,=20 > install something else, install something else... :) >=20 > > 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... >=20 > I did not run /usr./bin/ssmtp-config. I don't recall the ssmtp man=20 > page saying I should do so. I'm starting to think the documentation=20 > for some components of Cygwin could be improved a touch. >=20 >=20 > -- > 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/ >=20 >=20 -- 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/