This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Fetchmail call to procmail no longer works under Cygwin 1.7.1-1


On 02/23/2010 03:37 PM, Thomas Baker wrote:
Evidently if it does not find /home/TBaker/.procmailrc, it does
not go looking for /home/tbaker/.procmailrc.  Since my entire
file system is based on tbaker, I'd love to find a way to eradicate
the "TBaker" from my system entirely.  The guy who set up my XP
installation many years ago set my login as "TBaker" but it has
never caused any practical problems until now.

He should still be shot. ;-)


This worked:
	$ cd /home
	$ cp tbaker/.procmailrc TBaker
	$ procmail VERBOSE=on<test.mbox
	procmail: [3528] Tue Feb 23 15:22:39 2010
	procmail: Rcfile: "/home/TBaker/.procmailrc"
	procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/TBaker"
	procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmailrc"
	procmail: Assigning "LOG=
	"
	
	procmail: Assigning "VERBOSE=on"
	procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all"
	procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/tbaker/u/folders"
	procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/home/tbaker/u/folders/mbox"
	procmail: Assigning "PMDIR=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc"
	procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmail.log"
	procmail: Opening "/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmail.log"
	$

In a pinch, it looks like this would solve the problem, but it is an ugly
workaround.

Yeah, I wouldn't go that far when a symbolic link to /home/tbaker would suffice.

It would be nicer to expunge any references to "TBaker" entirely.
I guess they are in the Win32 registry?  I do not find any in my
cygwin configuration
files.

Hang on... There it is in /etc/passwd...:
TBaker:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-OCTAVIUS\TBaker,S-[...omitted...]:/home/TBaker:/bin/bash

and /etc/passwd was last accessed on 2007-11-16, so it would seem
procmail _was_ able
to work with this before the latest update -- if indeed /etc/passwd
has anything to do with
procmail's operation...

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html>


Changing the user name in '/etc/passwd' to use the proper case should resolve the
problem though.


--
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
216 Dalton Rd.                          (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746

_____________________________________________________________________

A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]