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Re: Migrating mail from Win95 to WinXP


On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:45:08AM -0400, Charles Krug wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 04:16:37PM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:13:40AM -0400, Charles Krug wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:15:45PM +0200, Olaf Foellinger wrote:
> > > > > What should the permissions be?  I won't be able to verify them until
> > > > > I'm home later tonight.
> > > > 
> > > > You should have read/write access to them of course. The difference
> > > > between 95 and XP are the acl's and how cygwin uses them.
> > > >  
> > > 
> > > Okay, I took a look at the procmail log and noticed two things.
> > > 
> > > First, it didn't like that $HOME/.procmailrc was world-writable.  Fixed
> > > with a chmod 644.
> > > 
> > > Second, it fails when it tries to lock the mailboxes and winds up
> > > putting everything in the default mailbox.
> > > 
> > > The permissions on my mail directory is drwxrwxrwx, whereas here it's
> > > just -rw------- (Under Linux).
> > 
> > Which userId does procmail use ? Your's or another ? Which user an group
> > belongs your Maildir to ?
> >  
> > Gruss Olaf Föllinger
> 
> User is "charles", group is "none" under WinXP
> 
> I've no idea which userId procmail uses.  I don't do anything in
> .fetchmailrc or .procmailrc that changes it.  Does this mean it uses my
> userid?

How do you start procmail ?
 
 
Gruss Olaf Föllinger

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