fetchmail cygrunsrv ".fetchmailrc must be owned by you."

["David McNeill" <davemc at mcpond dot co dot nz>]

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
lists@mcpond.co.nz






/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 DM@elsewhere.co.nz

# 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 DM@elsewhere.co.nz





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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