this does not seem to be working... I am trying to mostly keep the xmail server on my 2k side of things, but this process you suggested seems to use the Cygwin side
cat $1 | econv --mbox | mboxsend.pl PATH-OF-YOUR-MBOX-FILE would not work in 2k, because there is no way of making mboxsend.pl an exectuable, correct? What i did was install a perl for windows and used the explicit pathname to the perl interpretor (using windows protocal, i.e c:\ not /) then did a -f mboxsend.pl this seemed to work for a minute, in that it created a file that Pine under cygwin could read as a mbox file, but it would not deliver any mail there, and would not deliver incoming mail via pop either when I had that in the mailproc.tab I am now trying to learn linux so I can do a purely linuz solution, but until then, any ideas? thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: [xmail] Re: some newbie questions > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Vin Conti wrote: > > > > > Hey sorry if these questions were answered in the readme; I could not find > > them there. > > > > I am running xmail on a 2k box, which uses Cygwin for the telnet server and > > Pine on that. I want pine to read right off the mail spool, and to do that I > > BELIEVE I need it in mbox format. I understand I need to use econv to do > > that, but I don't have a clue how. I am a complete non programmer, and could > > not even get econv.c to compile into an actul program with the shareware > > compiler i downloaded (though I can give that another shot). Once I have > > that working, would I need to run econv as a service so it constantly > > updates the mbox folder? or would I need to run it manually every time I > > want to telnet in and use pine? > > You have to build econv.c in your cygwin install. This should work : > > $ gcc -o econv econv.c > > This one will help you if 1) you have perl installed 2) flock() is > supported by perl on Win32 : > > http://www.xmailserver.org/mboxsend.pl > > Then you should create a script that cat the message file through econv > and mboxsend.pl : > > cat $1 | econv --mbox | mboxsend.pl PATH-OF-YOUR-MBOX-FILE > > And then run this script from inside your mailproc.tab > I gave you traces now you should figure out how to glue this together. > > > > - Davide > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
