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 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020610120352.04c79318@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:05:30 -0400 To: Thomas Baker From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Mailcap and Cygwin/Mutt 1.2.5i Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20020610175315.A2164@mail.gmd.de> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020610104439.04c869a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20020609114821.A2224@LEPIDUS> <20020607145647.A160@LEPIDUS> <20020607133143.GB1408@NBOF> <20020607162934.D1872@LEPIDUS> <20020607150006.GB604@NBOF> <20020609114821.A2224@LEPIDUS> <20020610110850.A2132@mail.gmd.de> <5.1.0.14.0.20020610104439.04c869a0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:53 AM 6/10/2002, Thomas Baker wrote: >On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:45:56AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >> At 05:09 AM 6/10/2002, Thomas Baker wrote: >> >2) A weakly related question: My .fetchmailrc is supposed to >> > have permissions of 710 "at a maximum", but chmod 710 >> > .fetchmailrc (under Cygwin) doesn't seem to change the >> > permissions at all. >> >> See: >> Why doesn't chmod work? >> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45 > >Hmm, I see... The recommendation in SEC45, when a workaround >is required, is to modify the application's source code. >Perhaps this would need to be done for a Cygwin build of >Fetchmail so that it wouldn't make this unmeetable demand? Absolutely, in order to handle this for 9x platforms. As you can see, this issue isn't a new one. It's just awaiting someone interested enough in it to patch it. >> >3) Another WRQ: On the first tries, procmail delivers mail >> > without From-lines, and I figured out that this has >> > something to do with the %F and %T "escapes" but have not >> > found any documentation on these things at all (other than a >> > "man fetchmail" warning that they are potentially unsafe). >> >> Check the email archives for this one. It was discussed in the last >> few weeks. > >Bingo. (The search engine didn't like "%F", so I downloaded >the last six months of postings and fgrep'd; figured I'd need >to consult them anyway...:-) > >Thank you! You're welcome. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/