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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:44:40 -0500
From: "David Monk" <david AT purplebear DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Fetchmail as a service
Message-ID: <20010925104439.A473@purplebear.net>
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In-Reply-To: <20010924212459.A2224@dothill.com>; from jason@tishler.net on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:24:59PM -0400

Well, it would appear all is working well now.

I now have procmail working and delivering my mail. I had originally tried a perl script, spoolmail.pl, which I think was causing me some heartache. And, I have fetchmail running as a service.

I think this will be a decent setup. It would be nice to have an outgoing MTA that didn't depend on a smarthost for delivery, but ssmtp will suffice for now.

Thanks for the help,
David Monk


On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:24:59PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> David,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:15:51PM -0500, David Monk wrote:
> > There was a message in the archive regarding running fetchmail as a service
> > via cygwin. But, the only thing in the message was "Yes. I have it running.
> > And as a service" basically.
> > Has anyone hanging around and paying attention to the list got fetchmail
> > running as a service? If so, was there anything special you had to do to get
> > it all working properly?
> 
> Not under NT 4.0, but when I upgraded to 2000 I had two problems:
> 
> 1. fetchmail would corrupt some on my mail.  See the following for
> the details and patch:
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00628.html
> 
> 2. I needed to (re)define the HOME variable when I installed fetchmail
> as a service:
> 
>     cygrunsrv --install fetchmail --path /usr/local/bin/fetchmail --args "--daemon 300 --nodetach" --env HOME=/home/jt --termsig TERM --user 'althea\jt' --shutdown
> 
> > I have fetchmail configured and delivering mail to a local spool file, but
> > it fails on start when install using cygrunsrv.
> 
> Maybe #2 above is affecting you too?  What are the error messages when
> fetchmail fails to start via cygrunsrv?
> 
> BTW, I have fetchmail invoking procmail and the combination works very
> nicely.  And, when someone sends me a MS Word document, I can still view
> it via mutt's autoview feature.
> 
> Jason

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