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Date:	Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:09:13 +0200
From:	Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Mailcap and Cygwin/Mutt 1.2.5i
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In-Reply-To:	<20020609114821.A2224@LEPIDUS>; from thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de on Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:48:21AM +0200

Dear all,

I have been reading mail with the Unixmail package [1] --
a suite of binaries including Cygwin/Mutt 1.2.5i, fetchmail,
mutt_dotlock, etc.  This has been working smoothly for the
most part.

However, the mailcap function has _never_ worked, even with
careful experimentation ("mailcap entry not found").  On the
mutt-users mailing list, some users of Cygwin/Mutt 1.2.5i
said that mailcap worked for them, while others confirmed
that it did not.

When I recently downloaded the Mutt 1.2.5i binary directly from
cygwin.com, I see there is a difference both in size:
-rwxr-xr-x    389632 Jan  3  2001 /unixmail/bin/mutt.exe [1]
-rwxr-xr-x    608768 Dec 10 11:16 /usr/bin/mutt.exe - from cygwin.com
and in compiling options (see mutt -v outputs below).

I have been trying to reproduce my functioning Unixmail mail
configuration under /usr/bin/mutt.exe and, while I'm at it,
set up the new binary for Cygwin/Procmail, but I'm getting
unsettling (and time-consuming) error messages.  These error
messages fall into three categories:

1) The Unixmail package has mutt_dotlock, the mutt binary was
   compiled with +USE_DOTLOCK, and my muttrc has "set
   dotlock_program=bin/mutt_dotlock", but the cygwin.com
   binary does not have it.  Is the cygwin.com Mutt somehow
   more "dangerous" with regard to mail coming into an mbox
   that is being read (WIN2000 file system)?

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.

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).

Has anyone written up a guide to solving these issues in
settling up a Cygwin mail installation?

Thanks,
Tom

[1] http://unixmail-w32.sourceforge.net/

-----------------------------------------
Unixmail version
-----------------------------------------

Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) [using ncurses 5.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
+HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
-USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  -USE_POP  -HAVE_REGCOMP  +USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="no"
MAILPATH="spool"
SHAREDIR="/cygdrive/f/home/projects/unixmail/build/mutt/local/lib/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/cygdrive/f/home/projects/unixmail/build/mutt/local/etc"
-ISPELL
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev AT mutt DOT org>.
To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.

-----------------------------------------
Current http://cygwin.com distribution
-----------------------------------------

Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) [using ncurses 5.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  -USE_DOTLOCK  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
+USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL  +USE_POP  -HAVE_REGCOMP  +USE_GNU_REGEX  
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_PGP  +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  +ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="no"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
SHAREDIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
-ISPELL
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev AT mutt DOT org>.
To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.

-- 
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