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Re: cygwin movemail file truncation
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Peter Wisnovsky" <peter at wisnovsky dot net>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: 2004年2月13日 15:57:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygwin movemail file truncation
- References: <00c501c3f2680ドルa1f9b70$ac050b0a@PWISNOVSKY>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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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