If the Exchange server has POP3 or IMAP enabled, you should be able to
do email from an email client that runs on Cygwin.


On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:49, J. David Boyd
<david.b...@catalinamarketing.com> wrote:
>
> This is killing me, and I need some help trying to find out what is
> happening.
>
> I'm using XP pro at work, and I've installed Cygwin on my computer
> (Lenovo laptop).
>
> Lately, when I reboot, the computer gets as far as "Applying computer
> settings", and sits there.  For hours.  Tech Support takes it, destroys
> my old profile, creates a new profile, and it works.
>
> Then, my cygwin Xserver can't be started.  (I didn't realize that the
> cygwin installer wrote anything to my profile.  Hardware settings,
> maybe?).
>
> So, then I run setup.exe again on the Xserver parts, and everything is
> fine and dandy.
>
> Until I reboot again.
>
> Wet hair, lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> I don't think it is cygwin, because there is other software that I have
> installed.
>
> How do I prove 'conclusively' that it is NOT cygwin causing this
> behavior.  Without going back to tech support multiple times to
> re-profile my computer.
>
> To me, this machine is worthless without cygwin running on it.   It is
> really only being used to read my mail (Outlook Exchange), and
> administer remote linux machines.
>
> Any ideas?  Any at all (well, non-destructive, please).
>
> Dave
>
>
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