-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:56:29PM +0100, Steve Burkett wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just trying to piece me first Cygwin mail server together, and so far > have Exim accepting mail and putting it in the mailbox, but when I try > to access the mail via Outlook2002 using the UW-Imap server, I find that > while it works for one or two messages it starts to report: > > IMAPrev4 server crashing : header size inconsistent > > I followed the readme.txt and mounted the mail dir in binmode so when I > do a Mount I get: > -- > $ mount > c:\cygwin\var\spool\mail on /var/spool/mail type system (binmode) <rest > snipped> > -- > > And have put in place a link so that /var/mail points to > /var/spool/mail, so that UW-Imap can see the mailbox when it looks in > /var/mail. > > As I say, it does work, but it quickly becomes corrupted. I've also > tried using Outlook Express running on the local machine to see if it > was a (dropped?) connection issue but same thing happens. Works for a > bit, then gets corrupted.
This mail reminds me of the days whe I first tried mutt on cygwin. It could read mails but corrupted the mailbox. I don't remeber he reason exactly but it had to do with binary or ascii file access of mutt. Gruss Olaf Föllinger - -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Cygwin) iD8DBQE/DA+0QhZYH/dN/jsRAmt3AKCcfZJzJ92xEaeA9X9/swnK+oJxPgCdHM4G uoNapcpzgZwbBWeaOEksPvM= =AwOc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
