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, 14 Mar 2003 20:09:33 +0000 From: Sean Rima Reply-To: Sean Rima Organization: There Can Only Be 1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16137548718.20030314200933@tcob1.net> To: Igor Pechtchanski Subject: Re[2]: New to cygwin, newbie style question In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MDRemoteIP: 127.0.0.1 X-Return-Path: sean@tcob1.net X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-30.6 required=4.4 tests=AWL,BAYES_10,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Igor, Friday, March 14, 2003, 8:04:24 PM, you wrote: IP> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Sean Rima wrote: >> Hello cygwin, >> >> I am new to cygwin, having used all GNU apps on a Linux box which >> sadly blew up on me. I am trying to get some of my favourite apps to >> work on a XP box. I have compiled Spamprobe which works well inside >> the cygwin enviroment. What do I have to do to get it to be called >> from an email client like TheBat! or a windows based email server? >> >> Sean IP> Sean, IP> Since you went to such trouble to get Linux tools onto your Cygwin box, IP> any particular reason you want to use a Windows-based email client? What IP> email client did you use under Linux? There are email clients available IP> as Cygwin packages, notably pine and mutt, as well as various mail IP> services such as ssmtp, procmail, fetchmail, etc. Why not give them a IP> try? ;-) You should then be able to use the same mechanism you used on IP> Linux to invoke Spamprobe... IP> Igor I considered this but my wife, whose box I am using, is not a console fan and I have to bow to her request to keep stuff I put on it to a minimum. If I had the programming knowledge, I would convert them so that I could compile them using an opensource C compiler but I am not, so I hope that cygwin would help, of course I hope to be able to use some gnu tools on this box. Sean - -- Fidonet: 2:263/950 ICQ: 679813 Website http://www.tcob1.net THE VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF MY WIFE. 1.63 Beta/7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQE+cjcBHMnSWn2nApQRAqvQAKCevz0Vz+sWOeoOabJIya7Ov1TJRwCfV3J3 0v2nZKA77J5xWXkLRe0N6BU= =DXC3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/