Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:04:24 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Sean Rima cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New to cygwin, newbie style question In-Reply-To: <1636843328.20030314195747@tcob1.net> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Sean Rima wrote: > Hello cygwin, > > I am new to cygwin, having used all GNU apps on a Linux box which > sadly blew up on me. I am trying to get some of my favourite apps to > work on a XP box. I have compiled Spamprobe which works well inside > the cygwin enviroment. What do I have to do to get it to be called > from an email client like TheBat! or a windows based email server? > > Sean Sean, Since you went to such trouble to get Linux tools onto your Cygwin box, any particular reason you want to use a Windows-based email client? What email client did you use under Linux? There are email clients available as Cygwin packages, notably pine and mutt, as well as various mail services such as ssmtp, procmail, fetchmail, etc. Why not give them a try? ;-) You should then be able to use the same mechanism you used on Linux to invoke Spamprobe... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/