[h-e-w] Using gnus with cygwin fetchmail/procmail

[Peter Davis]

Is anyone using gnus with cygwin fetchmail and/or procmail?  After years of 
trying to get gnus to fetch from two POP servers, deleting messages from 
one and leaving them on the other, I've given up on this.  Now I'm thinking 
of using fetchmail instead.

However, I have a couple of questions about getting this to work:

1) Be default, fetchmail seems to leave a bunch of msg.blahblahblah files 
in my /var/spool/mail/pdavis directory, one message per file. Is this 
something gnus can read as a file or directory mail source, or do I have to 
get fetchmail to put all the messages into one file somehow? Anyone know 
what format or how to do that?

(I think fetchmail passes the messages off to procmail, and this may be 
what's splitting it.  I have no procmail recipes set up, so I don't know 
why this is.)

2) I'm on Windows NT4 and 2000, running fetchmail via cygwin. XEmacs and fsf
emacs, however, are native Windows apps. Is there some way to get gnus to
run fetchmail whenever I type 'g'? I don't want to have a fetchmail daemon
running continuously. I only want fetchmail to happen when I try to get
new mail in gnus.

If anyone else is using this combination of tools, I'd love to know how to 
set it up for Windows.

Thanks very much,

-pd




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