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Re: FW: ssmtp with multiple email accounts
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:34:50 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: FW: ssmtp with multiple email accounts
- References: <388a57b20804281139t7b39677cu55c64ae60bc026fe@mail.gmail.com> <20080429140253.GA27238@marvin.optimis.net> <388a57b20804300037k6d54bddejb76b94ed5874093e@mail.gmail.com> <20080430171614.GA2232@mimosa.garydjones.name> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0804301324090.4190@access1.cims.nyu.edu> <48191B70.3000904@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>
> > 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")?
>
> ssmtp does not attempt any expansion on the argument. If the shell
> doesn't expand it before passing it off to ssmtp, then it doesn't get
> expanded: so "-C~/foo.conf" would cause ssmtp to try to open a file
> named "foo.conf" in the subdirectory "~" of the current directory.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Notice that I said "*mutt* does not
expand the ~" -- assuming mutt uses execv. Even if mutt uses "/bin/sh -c"
on the command, the "~" inside the argument does not get expanded by
shells, and the one in "-C~/foo.conf" is definitely inside. Looking at
the man page, ssmtp requires that there be no space between "-C" and the
filename, so looks like the OP is stuck with absolute paths.
Igor
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