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    <p>Apparently, <code>email</code> is a program that lets you submit an email message (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_submission_agent" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mail Submission Agent</a>) that relies on another program to actually send the message (a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_transfer_agent" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mail Transfer Agent</a>).</p> <p>I enabled this on my Cygwin installation last week. I am not using <code>email</code> but <code>mutt</code>, one of the alternatives Cygwin offers (see its <a href="http://cygwin.com/packages/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">package list)</a>. I use <code>mutt</code> not only to submit the mail to be sent, but also to read it; it's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_user_agent" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mail User Agent</a> (see some <a href="http://www.mutt.org/screenshots/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">screenshots</a>).</p> <p>Like <code>email</code>, <code>mutt</code> relies on a Mail Transfer Agent to send mail, so I had to install one. On Linux, popular choices are <code>sendmail</code> and <code>postfix</code>; but they do far more than you need and Cygwin doesn't offer them as packages. It does offer <code>exim</code> and <code>ssmtp</code>.</p> <p>I installed the <code>ssmtp</code> package and ran the <code>ssmtp-config</code> utility. You have to make some decisions here. You must know which SMTP server you can use and whether you need any special configuration to communicate with it.</p> <p>By the way, <code>ssmtp</code> does install an executable called <code>sendmail</code>, which is not the original <code>sendmail</code>, but behaves like it for the purposes you need it for.</p>
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