Hello René, Thank you for your speedy response.
On Sat Sep 30 20:56 , René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> This leads me to actually running the server, and my question for the list: >> Does >> anyone have experience with that under Cygwin? > >No experience, but I recently did try to use imap-2006a (the latest UW IMAP release) and it compiles cleanly with no changes but after running for a while it hits problems with advisory locking (which doesn't exist in Cygwin since it is using Windows mandatory locking). So presumably maildir (with courier, rather than mbox with uw-imap) would somewhat alleviate this problem? > >> Things (like the auth daemon) seem to be failing silently. > >Installed as service? I can't make it run on the command line or as a service. According to the docs on the courier site, authdaemond sits around and starts some other processes, dumping info about it to syslog. When run from the command line as a normal user, it just exits, not putting anything into /var/log/messages. When run as a service, /var/log/messages gets: Sep 30 23:17:21 Package authd: PID 3976: `authd' service stopped, exit status: 5 But I think that is something cygrunsrv outputs, not authdaemond. >Running under what user & what Windows version? WinXP SP2, ran on command line as myself, tried as service with default SYSTEM user. >No messages in the event log (or syslog if you are using it)? Not for authdaemond (I think). >Last year there was some report similar to yours: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/62823 Yes, incomplete. I posted the configure/make instructions in the hope that it helps someone else get far enough to help out. :-D >Dovecot is another server that compiles easily, but their Wiki seems to point >to the same problem with advisory locking under Cygwin. I didn't realize Dovecot had similar problems to uw-imap. I chose Courier because it supports maildir and seems to have good reviews. >As you can see, there are a few of us interested in this subject but, as you say, there isn't much experience reported. Would be cool if it was part of the distribution, eventually. Marek -- 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/
