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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:15:45 +0200
From: Olaf Foellinger <Olaf DOT Foellinger AT bln DOT sesa DOT de>
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Migrating mail from Win95 to WinXP
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Hi,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:03:11PM -0400, Charles Krug wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:49:01PM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:15:00AM -0400, Charles Krug wrote:
> > > List:
> > > 
> > > I'm having trouble migrating my mailboxes from mutt 1.2.5i to mutt 1.4
> > > under XP.
> > > 
> > > What I did was install Cygwin's fetchmail, procmail, mutt and ssmtp on
> > > the XPPro machine, then simply copied over the mailboxes.
> > > 
> > > That left me with a bunch of read only mailboxes, and procmail just
> > > dumping everything into my default mailbox.
> > > 
> > > Obviously, I've missed a step.  What Magic am I missing?  XP machine is
> > > using NTFS.
> > 
> > What are the permissions of the mailboxes under XP ? 
> > Hint: ls -l <mailboxes>
> >  
> 
> What should the permissions be?  I won't be able to verify them until
> I'm home later tonight.

You should have read/write access to them of course. The difference
between 95 and XP are the acl's and how cygwin uses them.
 

Gruss Olaf Föllinger

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Olaf Föllinger
Senior Consultant IT Solutions
S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG



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