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: <3.0.5.32.20021221230238.00832360@h00207811519c.ne.client2.attbi.com> X-Sender: pierre@h00207811519c.ne.client2.attbi.com Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 23:02:38 -0500 To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= L. W. Meunier" <0@pervalidus.net> From: "Pierre A. Humblet" Subject: Re: Exim: Format error in spool file Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.20021221223233.00836580@h00207811519c.ne.client2.attbi.com> <3.0.5.32.20021221223233.00836580@h00207811519c.ne.client2.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id gBM48bv23835 At 01:58 AM 12/22/2002 -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: >> 2) Looking at the source code, this error message should include >> the name of a file. Have you looked at that file? >> Send it me as an attachment if you don't see anything obvious. > >Attached (very small files). It looks like your cygwin user name contains spaces. This confuses exim (and many other Unix programs). Edit your entry in the /etc/passwd file. Change the first field to something without spaces. Pierre -- 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/