Other Cygwin users on this list may be interested in some sources of information directly from Cygwin maintainers:
http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/fetchmail/fetchmail-5.9.12.README http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/procmail/procmail-3.22.README In general, the cygwin mailing list does indeed seem to be the more appropriate place to discuss the quirks of Unix-like mail processing under Windows. Tom On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 11:48:21AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote: > I now have _two_ Cygwin/Mutt 1.2.5i's: > -rwxr-xr-x 389632 Jan 3 2001 /unixmail/bin/mutt.exe [1] > -rwxr-xr-x 608768 Dec 10 11:16 /usr/bin/mutt.exe - from cygwin.com > The mutt -v outputs are attached below. > > FWIW, I re-did all of my tests using /unixmail/bin/mutt -- > including mutt -n -- again without success. Then I tried > the recently downloaded /usr/bin/mutt -n and mailcap worked > immediately. > > Since fetchmailconf exits with an error under FreeX86 (it > was expecting "dns" as a server, even though I was online > with a dns server), I will proceed to figure out how to > reconfigure everything for /usr/bin/mutt and /usr/bin/fetchmail > instead of using the Unixmail package (which had provided > fill-in-the-blank configuration). -- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619