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Is Cygwin cron supposed to send e-mail reports?


Cygwin:

I have a Debian box and several Cygwin boxes that back themselves up
every night and rsync the tarballs to a central Cygwin/XP backup server.
It all works, with the exception that I can't figure out how to get the
Cygwin boxes to send me e-mail reports (the Debian box does this, and
it's very useful).  I've downloaded, installed, and configured Cygwin
exim (and opened up the Windows Firewall SMTP port) expecting that cron
would send messages via the /usr/sbin/sendmail symbolic link, but that
didn't seem to do the trick.  I downloaded, installed, and fumbled
around with everything else available under the Cygwin Setup "Mail"
category, plus some manual command-line tests, looking at logs, etc.,
but couldn't figure it out.  I searched the Cygwin FAQ, User's Guide,
and mailing list, and searched Google for permutations on "Cygwin cron
mail", but I didn't find anything that looked like it addressed this
specific issue.


Is Cygwin cron supposed to send e-mail reports?  


TIA,

David


p.s.  Here is a command line test of Debian mail:

          dpchrist@p166d302:~$ mail -s test dpchrist@holgerdanske.com
          This is a test of Debian mail invoked as follows:
          mail -s test dpchrist@holgerdanske.com
          .
          Cc:
          dpchrist@p166d302:~$

    It worked -- e.g. the Debian box sent it via SMTP to the recipient.


p.p.s.  Here is a command line test using Cygwin email:

          dpchrist@p42800e:~$ email -s test dpchrist@holgerdanske.com
          Sending  "test"  |****************************************  \ 
 96% of 569 Bytes
          E-Mail Sent

    It didn't work.  Looking at the logs:

        dpchrist@p42800e:~$ tail -n 6 /var/log/exim/exim_main.log
        2005-01-09 08:45:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
 Resource temporarily unavailable
        2005-01-09 09:00:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
 Resource temporarily unavailable
        2005-01-09 09:15:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
 Resource temporarily unavailable
        2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 <= dpchrist@p42800e U=dpchr
ist P=local S=716
        2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 cloud.he.net [65.19.145.2]:
 Software caused connection abort
        2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 == dpchrist@holgerdanske.co
m R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (113): Software caused connection abor
t

        dpchrist@p42800e:~$ tail -n 3 /var/log/exim/exim_panic.log
        2005-01-09 08:45:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
 Resource temporarily unavailable
        2005-01-09 09:00:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
 Resource temporarily unavailable
        2005-01-09 09:15:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
 Resource temporarily unavailable

    Is this the Cygwin rebase issue?  I don't see "rebase" in the
    Cygwin FAQ or User's Guide.  Is there something that explains the
    Cygwin rebase issue?

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