/usr/bin/email causes error "sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory"
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sun May 21 22:39:00 GMT 2006
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:28:05PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>cygwin:
>
>I would like to send e-mail messages from Cygwin Bash scripts. I have
>installed the "email" and "exim" packages. When I attempt to send a test
>message form the command line, it fails:
>
> 2006-05-21 15:13:46 dpchrist@p3533 ~
> $ cat foo
> test message.
> line 2
> bye.
>
> 2006-05-21 15:14:02 dpchrist@p3533 ~
> $ /usr/bin/email -s test dpchrist@holgerdanske.com < foo
>
> E-Mail Sent
> sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
>
>
>It looks like I'm missing a library (/usr/lib/sendmail). Looking for a
>Cygwin package containing this file reveals nothing:
>
> http://cygwin.com/packages/
>
>
>Looking for a sendmail binary reveals nothing:
>
> 2006-05-21 15:21:57 dpchrist@p3533 ~
> $ which sendmail
> sendmail: Command not found.
>
>
>Any suggestions?
How about reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/email*.README?
cgf
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