Re: Mailcap and Cygwin/Mutt 1.2.5i

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:05:30PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 11:53 AM 6/10/2002, Thomas Baker wrote:
> >Hmm, I see...  The recommendation in SEC45, when a workaround
> >is required, is to modify the application's source code.
> >Perhaps this would need to be done for a Cygwin build of
> >Fetchmail so that it wouldn't make this unmeetable demand?
> 
> Absolutely, in order to handle this for 9x platforms.  As you can see, 
> this issue isn't a new one.  It's just awaiting someone interested enough
> in it to patch it.

Madoka Machitani was that someone:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-05/msg00013.html

Specifically,

    I would like to thank Madoka Machitani for his pre-compiled
    fetchmail and procmail binaries and for the patches necessary
    for proper operation under Windows 9x/Me.  His work on the Cygwin
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ports made it much easier for me to become the Cygwin maintainer.

Jason

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