Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 11:03:32 -0500 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: fetchmail 5.9.8 and maildrop 1.3.7 In-reply-to: <20020302004512.A1936@LOKI> To: Rui Carmo Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: Rui Carmo , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020302160332.GA1976@hp.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i References: <20020302004512.A1936@LOKI> Rui, On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:45:12AM +0000, Rui Carmo wrote: > Just to report that fetchmail 5.9.8 compiles cleanly on cygwin, If you run under Win2K (and possibly WinXP), you may want to see the following to save yourself some grief: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00628.html However, so far no one else seems to have noticed this problem. > I've also been fiddling with maildrop-1.3.7 ... > > However, mutt then complains that /var/spool/mail/user is not a valid > mbox file, since somewhere along the line, an extra blank line is inserted > at the beginning of the mailbox upon creation. Editing it out by hand > solves the problem, but is a rather lame fix. If you are having problems with maildrop, then I suggest trying procmail. I have been using the fetchmail/procmail/mutt combination very successfully under Cygwin for some time now. 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/