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| Thread ID: 39540 | 2003-11-10 00:45:00 | Windows port of Fetchmail? | agent (30) | Press F1 |
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| 190464 | 2003-11-10 00:45:00 | Is there such a thing? This follows on from my last thread. I can't use Eudora as an email client because the installation process doesn't work, due to some error occuring when it is extracting files pre-setup - and this means the installer asks for Disk 1, etc... So I'm still going to try i.Scribe, but it only supports one mail account. And since I have three, I've got a problem there (unless I buy InScribe, but I see no point if there is a free alternative). Hence the reason why I would love a Windows port of Fetchmail, but I can't find one. *Sighs* I have a lot of work to go to get my mail retrieval system set up, if I'm going to need a port of Fetchmail... ideally I would like to use a secure link to retrieve my emails, but only one of the three accounts I use supports it, and if, for some reason, I wanted to securely transfer my email between the processes on my computer, it might get more complicated (due to the fact Avast scanning doesn't support a secure connection, to my dismay). |
agent (30) | ||
| 190465 | 2003-11-10 01:06:00 | i nust have nissed your eudora thread :( it may be your antivirus interfering with the extraction. extract it with winzip/winrar/etc then run setup. hope that helps. no idea with fetchmail sorry. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 190466 | 2003-11-10 01:46:00 | The source code is available, and the gcc compiler can produce outoput for Windows. :D I haven't tried installing Eudora, but here's a trick I have had to use to make various installations work (when they have been converted from floppy). Each floppy in such sets has a dummy file in it ... called, say, "DISK1", "DISK2". This is used by the installer to know that the right floppy is there, by just doing a directory. (It allows people to make a copy and use the copies to do the install, without having to make the proper labels on each disk). Sometimes, in the conversion to "all in one place" on a CD, or a download package, someone gets efficcient, and decides "These dummy files aren't needed". And deletes them. :D Someone else decides "That installer has worked well, so I won't change it". :_| Try making the appropriate dummy files ... you might have to experiment to get the name right. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 190467 | 2003-11-10 03:16:00 | Thanks tweak'e, I disabled all on-access providers, and setup completed (although this time I got an error after the setup program closed... don't care about that yet though :D) | agent (30) | ||
| 190468 | 2003-11-10 07:09:00 | Checking the download isn't corrupted it a good idea too. | bmason (508) | ||
| 190469 | 2003-11-10 08:25:00 | There is a port of fetchmail for windows as this is for MANY *nix utilities sources.redhat.com Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer for Windows, it allows many *nix apps to be compiled on Windows with little or no modification. Get the installer and you can selectively install only the bits that you want/need. Xwindows is even there, and is rootless (X Windows appear on your Windows desktop). This is a good way to get used to Linux before going the whole hog and removing M$ from your PC, or allows you to write useful scripts under windows. |
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