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Re: Use Fetchmail/procmail on winxp


At 08:52 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote:
>Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> writes:
>
>> You should find the necessary information to do the above in the
>> following:
>
>Jason, I didn't see that there (as posted) but I suspect I'm
>overlooking some really obvious stuff.  I've searched gmane's cygwin
>group on this and I see you've posted on this several times and are
>running these tools yourself successfully.
>
>I wondered if you could post a simplified summary of your setup and
>proceedure you used to set it up?
>
>For example; is it no harder than simply running fetchmail and setting
>up a ~/.procmailrc?  Does fetchmail pass mail to procmail by default
>or if it sees a procmailrc.. etc.


'/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README' state that 'procmail' is 
configured to be called from the .fetchmailrc using the "mda" directive.


>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.


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