On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Gary wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 09:37:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oops. I know it's your own address, but still, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. > > >If you are intent on using ssmtp, something along the following (taken > > >from an old muttrc file) should work: > > [..] > > >folder-hook mbox1 \ > > >'set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -ap012345"' > > > > The ''set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe -au...'' definitely works. > > What I couldn't get to work was ''set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe > > -C<some config file>'' but I haven't managed to get to the bottom of > > that yet. > > Short version: > set sendmail="/usr/bin/ssmtp -C/etc/ssmtp/<config file>" > works just fine in a folder-hook. > > Long version: > If you are reading this then I solved the problem with the previously > mentioned "-C" stuff - ssmtp does not seem to allow one to specify > "~/foo.conf" (for example) as the config file. If you set it to > -C/etc/ssmtp/foo.conf then everything will be fine and you can happily > have as many different email accounts and external mailhubs as your > heart desires and you can maintain the configurations for. I don't > know if not allowing the config file to be anywhere but /etc/ssmtp is > a bug, a feature, or a random twist of fate, but it would be nice if > the maintainer could mention it in the man file (or maybe I just > missed it when I read it). Could it simply be that mutt does not expand the "~" in the filename when passing the command-line option? Did you try the absolute path (i.e., "/usr/bin/ssmtp -C/home/user/foo.conf")? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/