X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:13:52 -0500 From: Jason Tishler To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Fetchmail call to procmail no longer works under Cygwin 1.7.1-1 Message-id: <20100223131352.GA4172@tishler.net> Mail-followup-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <3a8528891002220612q63d1ee8fxc69140f9b41685c5 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20100222220208 DOT GA1308 AT tishler DOT net> <3a8528891002221452h48008b49t2a17aa42a97ee5e AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20100223021729 DOT GA6116 AT tishler DOT net> <3a8528891002221948k38c0cc7ei24a4822a86803df6 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline In-reply-to: <3a8528891002221948k38c0cc7ei24a4822a86803df6@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Tom, On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:48:14PM -0500, Thomas Baker wrote: > Jason, > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Jason Tishler wrote: > > Please note the following: > > > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPIOSPE > > My apologies if I overlooked that - I'm temporarily working in > googlemail because of this procmail situation and feel out of my usual > element (mutt). Unfortunately, you are still overlooking the above. :,( > >> Procmail, on the other hand, is already set to VERBOSE and writes > >> to a logfile procmail.log. On the netbook, where procmail works, > >> it does write to the logfile. On the desktop, where procmail does > >> not work, it does not write to the logfile, making me think it is > >> somehow not even being called. > > > > What happens if you call procmail from the command line directly? > > Does it find your ~/.procmailrc file on the desktop machine? > > procmail -v does find $HOME/.procmailrc and /var/spool/mail/TBaker > on the desktop machine. I meant running procmail from the command line with a mail message like the following: $ procmail > Could case sensitivity be causing your problem (i.e., tbaker vs. > > TBaker)? What does the "logname" command and "$HOME" variable > > indicate on each machine? > > On the netbook: > logname: tbaker > $HOME is /home/tbaker > > On the desktop > logname: TBaker > $HOME is /home/tbaker I don't know why the case difference would cause a problem, but so far it is the only difference I can find between the two machines. > If this problem came up only after an update to Cygwin 1.7, after > working perfectly for years, is it possible that Cygwin is getting the > logname from a different location now? Though I believe the logname > on the desktop has been TBaker for years. AFAIK, no. > This is drawing me deeper into the mechanics of mail than I ever > thought I'd need to go. I'm still using Windows XP and wondering > whether this might be the moment to take the plunge to Windows 7. > Is it likely that starting with a clean install of Windows 7 and > Cygwin might just make this problem go away? I thought that would > be more work than de-bugging fetchmail/procmail, but now I'm not so > sure. I don't know, but replacing the operating system seem like a very drastic way of "solving" this problem. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple