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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:39:51 +0200
From: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
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Jason,

> If fetchmail is running under your account, then I'm at a loss to explain
> your observed behavior.

I always start fetchmail by hand as "tbaker" (my account)
in a console window with the command "fetchmail --nodetach".
My .fetchmailrc says (using ***** to block out the names
and passwords):

| set daemon 10
| set logfile /cygdrive/e/u/config/fetchmail.log
| set invisible                       # suppress "Received:" line fetchmail adds
| set no bouncemail
| poll *******
| 	  protocol: pop3
|     username: ******
|     password: ******
|     nokeep
|     fetchall
| #	messages
|     mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" # pass message to the local MDA

This last line worked just fine for several months, until the
latest upgrade.  The command executed is:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 tbaker   None        61952 Aug 19 16:41 /usr/bin/procmail

> Is fetchmail running under the LocalSystem account?  If so, then perform
> the following:
> 
>     chmod 777 e:/u/procmail

I don't think it is running under a LocalSystem account,
but I tried the above anyway and it did not work.

In short, fetchmail is fetching the mail but something seems
to be wrong with the handover to Procmail and everything
is simply landing in the default /var/spool/mail/tbaker.
I assume Procmail is not getting the mail at all because if it
were there should be some record of that in the procmail.log.

Moreover, I know that Procmail itself is working because
"procmail -m" successfully processed the recipes there and
recorded that success in the file procmail.log.

Tom



On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:25:23AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:43:19PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:16:14AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > What *exactly* does procmail.log indicate happened to the misfiled
> > > messages?
> > 
> > Attached is the entire procmail.log -- i.e., the log
> > captures the file tested with "cat test.mbox | procmail -m
> > e:/.procmailrc" (above), but does not register any of the
> > incoming mail that is constantly arriving, which all simply
> > goes to the default /var/spool/mail/tbaker.
> 
> See below...
> 
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:56:48AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:14:52AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > > I would check the permissions of $PMDIR, $PMDIR/procmail.log, and
> > > your entire $MAILDIR tree.
> > 
> > [snip]
> >
> > $PMDIR:
> > drwxr-xr-x    2 tbaker   None         4096 Oct 23 10:44 e:/u/procmail
> > 
> > Are these permissions set as they should be?
> 
> Is fetchmail running under the LocalSystem account?  If so, then perform
> the following:
> 
>     chmod 777 e:/u/procmail
> 
> Can procmail write to e:/u/procmail/procmail.log when driven by
> fetchmail now?  If so, does it indicate why procmail can't write to your
> mail folders?
> 
> If fetchmail is running under your account, then I'm at a loss to explain
> your observed behavior.

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