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Pierre-Philipp,

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:21:53AM +0200, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> I'm using cygwin to filter my emails with fetchmail and procmail.
> Problem is, when fetchmail launches procmail (mda "/usr/bin/procmail
> -f - -m $HOME/.procmailrc.file"), it quickly opens and closes
> freacking (blank) dos windows !  How to avoid that ?

You can workaround the issue by running fetchmail as a service.  See the
following for the details:

    /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.3.8.README

Jason

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