Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:07:32 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Procmail, Fetchmail, etc... In-reply-to: <3CE54D87.CF0E0BAA@mitre.org> To: Jason House Cc: Cygwin Mail-followup-to: Jason House , Cygwin Message-id: <20020517200732.GD2256@tishler.net> 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: <3CE54D87.CF0E0BAA@mitre.org> Jason, Please post to cygwin@cygwin.com instead of sending private email. On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:35:51PM -0400, Jason House wrote: > By far you seem like the best person to contact about procmail under > cygwin. All my searches always seem to lead to your posts. > > I know fetchmail has issues. Did you read the README? /usr/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-5.9.11.README or http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.11.README Specifically, the following: Although fetchmail builds OOTB under Cygwin, two patches have been applied to: 1. solve a mail corruption problem under Windows 2000 (possibly other Windows versions) > What is the recommended way to receive/transmit e-mail under cygwin > without corruption? I recommend using mutt/fetchmail/procmail under Cygwin. I've been using this combination very successfully for about a year. The corruption problem that I *had* after upgrading to Window 2000 is the only serious problem that I have encountered. 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/