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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:37:59 +0200
From: Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun@nethence.com>
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Subject: Re: daemon opens blank dos windows for its subprocess
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Fetchmail now runs as a service.  It's solved.
Just wondering : what happends with its stderr if there are some errors?
(with or without the --nodetach)

Besides, what client are you using ?  I used Pine a lot but I prefer
graphical clients at the end.  So I'm using xinetd/uw-imapd.

Regards
-Pierre-Philipp

Quoting Jason Tishler (11/07/2008 14:14),
> 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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