Fetchmail call to procmail no longer works under Cygwin 1.7.1-1

[Thomas Baker]

> Evidently if it does not find /home/TBaker/.procmailrc, it does
> not go looking for /home/tbaker/.procmailrc.  Since my entire
> file system is based on tbaker, I'd love to find a way to eradicate
> the "TBaker" from my system entirely.  The guy who set up my XP
> installation many years ago set my login as "TBaker" but it has
> never caused any practical problems until now.

This worked:
	$ cd /home
	$ cp tbaker/.procmailrc TBaker
	$ procmail VERBOSE=on <test.mbox
	procmail: [3528] Tue Feb 23 15:22:39 2010
	procmail: Rcfile: "/home/TBaker/.procmailrc"
	procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/TBaker"
	procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmailrc"
	procmail: Assigning "LOG=
	"
	
	procmail: Assigning "VERBOSE=on"
	procmail: Assigning "LOGABSTRACT=all"
	procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/tbaker/u/folders"
	procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/home/tbaker/u/folders/mbox"
	procmail: Assigning "PMDIR=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc"
	procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmail.log"
	procmail: Opening "/home/tbaker/u/config/procmailrc/procmail.log"
	$

In a pinch, it looks like this would solve the problem, but it is an ugly
workaround.  It would be nicer to expunge any references to "TBaker" entirely.
I guess they are in the Win32 registry?  I do not find any in my
cygwin configuration
files.

Hang on... There it is in /etc/passwd...:
TBaker:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1003:513:U-OCTAVIUS\TBaker,S-[...omitted...]:/home/TBaker:/bin/bash

and /etc/passwd was last accessed on 2007-11-16, so it would seem
procmail _was_ able
to work with this before the latest update -- if indeed /etc/passwd
has anything to do with
procmail's operation...

Tom

-- 
Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>

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