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Re: cygwin movemail file truncation


At 02:31 PM 2/13/2004, Peter Wisnovsky you wrote:
>Hi! I'm trying to figure out a problem I seem to be having with cygwin
>movemail, installed in
>
>    /usr/sbin/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-cygwin/movemail
>
>My mail directory for procmail/fetchmail is ~/usr/mail. HOME is
>/users/pwisnovsky. /users is mounted from C:/Documents and Settings in
>textmode:
>
>    c:\Documents and Settings on /users type system (textmode)
>
>I have a mailbox tmp.spool which got mail routed into it via
>procmail/fetchmail:
>
>    -rw-------    1 pwisnovs mkgroup-    67067 Feb 13 10:32 tmp.spool
>
>When I run movemail -p tmp.spool tmp I end up with
>
>    -rw-rw-r--    1 pwisnovs mkgroup-     1024 Feb 13 11:17 tmp
>    -rw-------    1 pwisnovs mkgroup-    67067 Feb 13 10:32 tmp.spool
>
>Ick! Where did the rest of my email go? I'm trying to bin up my email using
>procmail automagically for later perusal via Emacs VM.
>
>Any suggestions? Could this be a CR/NL/lseek issue? I'm running the cygwin
>emacs 21.2.1 under Xfree86.


Sounds like it could be a binary/text mode issue.  Try mounting '/users'
as binary instead of text.  If it works then, you'll know movemail hasn't
been properly ported to Windows.


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