Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/10/11:55:18
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?
> >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!
Tom
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