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From: "Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm DOT Boekhoff AT actfs DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Cygwin News Group" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fetchmail
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:16:17 -0000


I got fetchmail working by setting the "ntea" option in CYGWIN environment variable and then chmodding ~/.fetchmailrc.

> "Julia A . Case" wrote:
> > I downloaded the source to fetchmail and it compiled out of the box.  But
> > when I went to run it, it complained that .fetchmailrc must have the
> > permissions of 0710...  I tried chmod 0710 .fetchmailrc but that didn't
> > change the permissions, is there a way under win98 to change the
> > permissions?
>
> Unfortunately not. You will have to patch fetchmail to ignore
> permissions (the easy way) or to check if setting permissions is
> possible dependent of the OS, the file system and the CYGWIN
> setting (the hard way).
>
> I did this in OpenSSH, too. If you download the sources from
> latest/openssh on your favorite mirror, you will find a source file
> named `cygwin_util.c' which contains a function `check_ntsec' which
> manages exactly that check.
>
> The you'll have to incorporate that function into your fetchmail
> port and change the above permission check which is similar to
>
> if ((st.st_mode & 067) != 0)
>
> to something like
>
>     #ifdef CYGWIN
> if (check_ntsec (filename))
>     #endif
> if ((st.st_mode & 067) != 0)
>
> Hope, that helps,
> Corinna
>
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