On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 at 10:48:30 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Piet Delport <mutt> [14/09/01 00:40 +0200]:
> > Actually, i remember ssmtp running quite well when used mutt on Cygwin
> > (i've since moved to FreeBSD, thank Eris). It can be installed very
> > easily via Cygwin's setup.exe, AFAIR, just like mutt.
>
> Speaking of cygwin, is there any way to spool mail locally on the doze box
> using a fetchmail variant?
>
> c:/mail/ having several mboxes for example.
I used to do just that, running both fetchmail and procmail as if on a
unix.
I compiled both from the stock sources, although there where some
gotchas with fetchmail. From memory:
1. I had to ./configure fetchmail with `--with-included-gettext', as it
didn't like the gettext headers that came with cygwin.
2. I had to patch fetchmail to make it not complain about the
permissions of .fetchmailrc, as the requirement that it isn't
world-readable doesn't really apply under Win9x. It's silly that
fetchmail doesn't have an override for this behaviour, IMHO.
(The patch involved #ifdef'ing out the few lines of code in
rcfile_y.y (IIRC) that do the check.)
procmail was relatively painless, except that `make install' failed
because there was a file in the distribution called `INSTALL', which,
because of the case-insensitiveness of Winders, confused make greatly
until i moved `INSTALL'.
If you're planning to run gpg as well: i had to ./configure it with
`--disable-dynload' and `--disable-asm' to get it to compile, and ended
up #ifdef'ing out some code that (harmlessly) complains about insecure
memory as well.
If you want, i can dig up my notes on all of the above, to see exactly
what i changed.
--
Piet Delport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Today's subliminal thought is:
PGP signature
