Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/26/13:43:09
Hi, Jason,
Jason Tishler writes:
> Pete,
>
> Please post to the Cygwin mailing list <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> instead of
> sending private email.
Sorry, I just didn't want to bother the whole list if there was
already a well-known solution.
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:40:46PM -0400, Pete McCann wrote:
> > I am experiencing the same kind of transient email corruption problem
> > that you described in an email to the Cygwin mailing list on August 7,
> > 2001. Did you ever find the solution to the problem?
>
> Yes, see the following:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg01584.html
>
> Note that on August 14, 2001, I posted the following:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00628.html
>
> So you were in the neighborhood, but didn't quite find the "needle in
> the haystack." :,)
I did eventually find this email; more below...
> > Any workaround?
>
> Yes, even "more" than a workaround since the above patch has been accepted
> into fetchmail CVS:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01514.html
>
> > I recently started using fetchmail under Windows 2000 and it is vital
> > that I be able to read large attachments - if I can't figure this out
> > I will probably be forced into using Microsoft Exchange or something
> > similarly evil. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.
>
> Are you using the standard Cygwin fetchmail:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01132.html
>
> or one built by yourself?
I was using the standard Cygwin fetchmail 5.9.11-1 installed by
setup.exe just last week. After noticing the corruption problem and
finding your patch, I went to download the latest sources from the
fetchmail homepage. I looked through socket.c, noticed there was
already some Cygwin-specific stuff there, and did my own compile,
making sure to set CFLAGS="-D__CYGWIN__ -O". I also noticed the
configure script said "disabling SSL."
After compiling and installing this way, things seem to be working
fine. I wonder, is the standard Cygwin binary compiled with
-D__CYGWIN__ (I assume so)? Something else, there doesn't seem to be
any patching to the SSL-specific branch of the code in SockRead();
perhaps my original installation was trying to use SSL. Has it been
verified that the bug does not impact the SSL handling in the code?
> Note that I'm using mutt/ssmtp and fetchmail/procmail to avoid going
> over to the Microsoft side myself.
>
> BTW, you may be interested in the standard Cygwin procmail too:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01138.html
Procmail is working just fine for me, after I made sure to remove all
\r's from my .procmailrc...
-Pete
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