Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:24:59 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: David Monk Cc: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Fetchmail as a service Message-ID: <20010924212459.A2224@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: David Monk , Corinna Vinschen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00f001c14535$b5500cb0$391e10ac@dmonknt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i David, On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:15:51PM -0500, David Monk wrote: > There was a message in the archive regarding running fetchmail as a service > via cygwin. But, the only thing in the message was "Yes. I have it running. > And as a service" basically. > Has anyone hanging around and paying attention to the list got fetchmail > running as a service? If so, was there anything special you had to do to get > it all working properly? Not under NT 4.0, but when I upgraded to 2000 I had two problems: 1. fetchmail would corrupt some on my mail. See the following for the details and patch: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00628.html 2. I needed to (re)define the HOME variable when I installed fetchmail as a service: cygrunsrv --install fetchmail --path /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --args "--daemon 300 --nodetach" --env HOME=/home/jt --termsig TERM --user 'althea\jt' --shutdown > I have fetchmail configured and delivering mail to a local spool file, but > it fails on start when install using cygrunsrv. Maybe #2 above is affecting you too? What are the error messages when fetchmail fails to start via cygrunsrv? BTW, I have fetchmail invoking procmail and the combination works very nicely. And, when someone sends me a MS Word document, I can still view it via mutt's autoview feature. Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/