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Re: Use Fetchmail/procmail on winxp
At 08:29 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote:
>Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:31:27PM -0500, reader wrote:
>>> My aim is to retrieve from a pop3 server using fetchmail and deliver
>>> using procmail to wherever it needs to go for gnus to slurp the mail.
>>
>> You should find the necessary information to do the above in the
>> following:
>>
>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.2.5.README
>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/procmail-3.22.README
>
>Not sure if this was a joke or what but apparently it has gone right
>over my thick skull.
Why would Jason joke about this? He is the maintainer for these
packages after all.
>I didn't find a single word in either document that was about how to
>make these tools work on windows.
Right. They don't say squat about how to set these up on Windows. They
tell you how to use them for Cygwin. If you're looking for the piece to
figure out how to integrate this with some Windows email client (was it
Outlook you mentioned?), you won't find that in these documents. But it
certainly describes how to get fetchmail/procmail working together. And
if you don't mind using a different email client, there are plenty of
ones available with Cygwin ('pine' and 'mutt' are two examples).
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