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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:41:33 -0400
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From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Use Fetchmail/procmail on winxp
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At 11:26 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote:
>Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> writes:
>
>> '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README' state that 'procmail' is 
>> configured to be called from the .fetchmailrc using the "mda" directive.
>
>Apparently you have a very different 
>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README than I do.  Mine doesn't
>mention the word procmail at all.
>
>>>I'm just kind of blind about how to start with this.  On my linux/unix
>>>setups I always called procmail in the the sendmail.cf file.  And
>>>fetchmail knew to pass to sendmail on port 25...
>>>
>>>On my windows setups I don't know how windows gets mail; and there is
>>>no sendmail.cf invovled so that avenue is out.
>>
>>
>> Actually, the first few lines of the fetchmail README says:
>>
>>   Fetchmail supports every remote-mail protocol currently in use on the
>>   Internet (POP2, POP3, RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all IMAPs, ESMTP ETRN, IPv6,
>>   and IPSEC) for retrieval. Then Fetchmail forwards the mail through SMTP
>>   so you can read it through your favorite mail client.
>>
>> Maybe you should just try what Jason suggests in the README and then 
>> report any problems you see.
>
>Again apparently your version is different.  I don't see any
>suggestion made here.
>
>This is the closest I guess:
>
>  Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote
>  mail retrieval and forwarding utility intended to be used over
>  on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections).  It
>  retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it to your local
>  (client) machine's delivery system, so it can then be be read by
>  normal mail user agents such as elm(1) or Mail(1).


You're looking at '/usr/share/doc/fetchmail-6.2.5/README'.
Jason and I pointed you at '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README'.
That's the *Cygwin* specific version of the README.




>>> I didn't find a single word in either document that was about how to
>>> make these tools work on windows.  
>
>> Right.  They don't say squat about how to set these up on Windows.  They
>> tell you how to use them for Cygwin.  If you're looking for the piece to 
>
>Ok, I've really missed the ball here.  I was under the notion that
>cygwin itself was designed to work with windows.  I didn't realize it
>was a stand alone OS.  I was looking for a way to use unix tools on
>windows since I'm far more familiar with unix but have need of using
>windows.


Nope.  You were right the first time.  See <http://www.cygwin.com/>.


>> figure out how to integrate this with some Windows email client (was it 
>> Outlook you mentioned?),
>
>No, as explained in my first post, it was emacs mail/news reader `Gnus'.


OK, it seems like this is possible to do but I have no experience with 
emacs mail/news reader.  You might try googling around for how to make 
this work with fetchmail/procmail in Cygwin.



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