I've read Google, Cygwin FAQ's, Fetchmail FAQ's, Docs, Mail list
archives etc but haven't found the right answer yet, apologies if it's
an obvious answer.
Objective: Run fetchmail as a service under Windows XP under Cygwin to
get mail from a pop3 mailbox, and forward it on to someone else, leaving
the mail on the original server.
Tick Install fetchmail with Cygwin setup program
Tick Setup fetchmail with run control file.
/home/DM/.fetchmailrc [ see below for contents ]
Tick Run fetchmail from command line, works correctly.
Tick Install cygrunsrv to run fetchmail as an NT service
Tick Use install command of cygrunsrv to add the service [ below ]
Tick Look in NT Server manager / services to see setup correctly
Tick Look in registry
\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\fetchmail
To verify install went ok.
Tick Start it up with
net start fetchmail or
start in NT services or
cygrunsrv --start fetchmail
Bong cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32
error 1062:
The service has not been started.
Look In /var/log/fetchmail.log
File /home/DM/.fetchmailrc must be owned by you.
Cross But it is!!!???
/home/DM/
-rwx--x---+ 1 DM None 791 Apr 12 18:43
.fetchmailrc
Is cygrunsrv running as a different user - who is it referring to as
"you" ? I added a cygrunsrv with id, and it told me it was running as
DM. It would be nice it cygrunsrv said who it meant by "you"
Fetchmail talks about permissions on .fetchmailrc , but rwx x looks ok.
Is the group None significant?
JT talks about a hack of fetchmail to run under cygwin that removes the
checking of owner of .fetchmailrc , but this appears to only be required
for FAT and FAT32 file systems that do not have file owners, running
under NTFS, there is a valid file owner.
Have the user id's got mixed up? Don't think so. I did join a domain
after installing Cygwin, which does change your NT user account.
$ id
uid=1003(DM) gid=513(None) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users)
$ ls -nl .f*
-rwx--x---+ 1 1003 513 791 Apr 12 18:43 .fetchmailrc
Looks ok.
I'm stumped at this point, and not sure where to research next, any
pointers would be appreciated.
David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/user/DM/.fetchmailrc
# poll every 15 minutes
set daemon 900
# log processes to log file, not stdout
set logfile fetchmaillog
# send mail undeliverable to...
set postmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# dont bounce to sender if undeliverable
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
# dont add anything to the headers
set invisible
# set some defaults
defaults proto pop3
# get some mail
poll pop3.somewhere.co.nz
username "nod" password "imnottellingyou" keep smtphost
smtp.somewhere.co.nz smtpname [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cygrunsrv --install fetchmail --path /usr/bin/fetchmail --args "--daemon
300 --nodetach" --disp FetchMail --desc "FetchMail remote mail retrieval
and fowarding service under CygWin" --dep LanmanWorkstation --env
HOME=/home/DM --termsig TERM --user 'DM' --passwd fffff --shutdown
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