Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/10/23:42:07
At 11:26 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote:
>Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> writes:
>
>> '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README' state that 'procmail' is
>> configured to be called from the .fetchmailrc using the "mda" directive.
>
>Apparently you have a very different
>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README than I do. Mine doesn't
>mention the word procmail at all.
>
>>>I'm just kind of blind about how to start with this. On my linux/unix
>>>setups I always called procmail in the the sendmail.cf file. And
>>>fetchmail knew to pass to sendmail on port 25...
>>>
>>>On my windows setups I don't know how windows gets mail; and there is
>>>no sendmail.cf invovled so that avenue is out.
>>
>>
>> Actually, the first few lines of the fetchmail README says:
>>
>> Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the
>> Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6,
>> and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through SMTP
>> so you can read it through your favorite mail client.
>>
>> Maybe you should just try what Jason suggests in the README and then
>> report any problems you see.
>
>Again apparently your version is different. I don't see any
>suggestion made here.
>
>This is the closest I guess:
>
> Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote
> mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
> on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections). It
> retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local
> (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by
> normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1).
You're looking at '/usr/share/doc/fetchmail-6.2.5/README'.
Jason and I pointed you at '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README'.
That's the *Cygwin* specific version of the README.
>>> I didn't find a single word in either document that was about how to
>>> make these tools work on windows.
>
>> Right. They don't say squat about how to set these up on Windows. They
>> tell you how to use them for Cygwin. If you're looking for the piece to
>
>Ok, I've really missed the ball here. I was under the notion that
>cygwin itself was designed to work with windows. I didn't realize it
>was a stand alone OS. I was looking for a way to use unix tools on
>windows since I'm far more familiar with unix but have need of using
>windows.
Nope. You were right the first time. See <http://www.cygwin.com/>.
>> figure out how to integrate this with some Windows email client (was it
>> Outlook you mentioned?),
>
>No, as explained in my first post, it was emacs mail/news reader `Gnus'.
OK, it seems like this is possible to do but I have no experience with
emacs mail/news reader. You might try googling around for how to make
this work with fetchmail/procmail in Cygwin.
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