Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? The above question doesn't seem to > > have anything to do with Cygwin. > > Yeah, but I thought I'd try here first since Cygwin seemed (at least to > me) to be the much more likely culprit.

Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread overbored
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] Did you add imapd to /etc/services? Well, I never even knew about this file before, but there's a line saying: imap 143/tcpimap4 #Internet Message Access Protocol Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? The above question doesn't seem

RE: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread Abraham Backus
For the xinetd question (how does it know what port?), it uses the "imap" string (e.g. "service imap") to look up in /etc/services to discover the port to bind with. Read the link provided by Igor for a more thorough explanation. Also, check that you've restarted your service after adding the ent

Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Some corrections below... On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: > > [snip] > > > Aside #3: if ssh were also under xinetd.d (it's not currently), > > wouldn't that conflict with the ssh service that I already set up as a > > Service (as instructed at

Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: I had posted this earlier as a sub-question, but I guess not a lot of people saw it I don't know much about xinetd and imapd beyond the general basics, but let me take a shot at answering. See below. [snip] Aside #1: how does this know what port to work wi

UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread overbored
I had posted this earlier as a sub-question, but I guess not a lot of people saw it I'm trying to get an IMAP server running, and it seems my only option today is uw-imapd. The cygwin package for that is installed, and I created an 'imap' file under xinetd.d with the following: # default: