Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-11 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > > Yes, it relies on MTA (and I thought that ssmtp is good default for > > Cygwin) since original mailx does the same. Althought one could simply > > use netcat, but that brakes SMTP protocol and this behaviour > > is recently becoming forbidden. > > I'm curious: in what way

RE: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-11 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of jerzy szczudlowski > Sent: 11 May 2004 00:36 > Yes, it relies on MTA (and I thought that ssmtp is good default for > Cygwin) since original mailx does the same. Althought one could simply > use netcat, but that brakes SMTP protocol and

Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-10 Thread jerzy szczudłowski
Frédéric L W Meunier wrote: >> Have you looked at ssmtp? > > His script uses ssmtp. ssmtp isn't a mailx or nail replacement. Yes, it relies on MTA (and I thought that ssmtp is good default for Cygwin) since original mailx does the same. Althought one could simply use netcat, but that brakes SMT

Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-09 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > jerzy szczudÅowski wrote: > > > Since mailx package is not ported to Cygwin, and from time to time > > someone miss it, I wrote short shell script that enables straight > > compatibility with some programs which by default depend on "mail" > > command (i

Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
jerzy szczudÅowski wrote: Since mailx package is not ported to Cygwin, and from time to time someone miss it, I wrote short shell script that enables straight compatibility with some programs which by default depend on "mail" command (i.e. smartmontools). Since this is really simple script, it is