Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/18/09:43:06
Luciano <lucianoav AT gmx DOT net> wrote:
> For a Windows IMAP server, Hamster beats Mercury hands down, but I
> really wanted something:
> a) more Unix like
> b) more silent and invisible
> c) more prone to let me point to any directory
> Hamster only works with folders inside its own directory.
If you mean the directory in which the hamster exe lives this simply is not
so, in fact they don't even need to be on the same drive. It has been a long
time, but I think you need to look at the [Directories] section of
hamster.ini (Main=...). You need to copy/duplicate a lot of the files in the
Hamster .exe dir in your other dir and I never figured out exactly which
ones, I always meant to but at the moment I have
$ ls -la
total 12132
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 1374 Jul 18 2002 Accounts.!!!
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 28 Jul 18 2002 DefScript.txt
drwxr-xr-x 18 me users 0 Dec 15 2001 Groups
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 225 Jul 18 2002 Groups.!!!
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 247 Jan 31 17:46 Groups.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 322560 Dec 13 2001 HAMSTER.FTS
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 3749 Nov 15 2001 HAMSTER.HSM
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 73273 Mar 11 18:01 HAMSTER_en.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 5023 Apr 18 07:03 Hamster.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 47821 Dec 14 2001 Hamster_de.GID
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 110 Jul 2 2002 IPAccess.hst
drwxr-xr-x 2 me users 0 Dec 15 2001 Logs
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 207 Jul 18 2002 MAlias.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 269 Jan 25 06:34 MailFilt.hst
drwxr-xr-x 7 me users 0 Dec 15 2001 Mails
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 1426 Jan 3 10:50 NewsPost.hsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 1518 Oct 24 16:31 Password.!!!
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 375 Dec 8 19:47 Pulls.hst
drwxr-xr-x 2 me users 0 Sep 18 1999 RECYCLED
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 526 Mar 6 05:00 Scores.hst
drwxr-xr-x 6 me users 0 Dec 15 2001 Server
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 43 Nov 20 19:07 Server.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 48 Dec 20 17:51 SrvPOP3.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 23 Dec 20 17:51 SrvSMTP.hst
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 0 Nov 7 2001 active.dis
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 3493 Jan 3 10:46 header.hsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 6533 Nov 15 2001 hmessage.hsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 2151 Nov 17 2001 hstrings.hsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 4063 Apr 29 2000 htime.hsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 me users 154 Sep 26 2002 navne.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 778 Dec 31 08:31 procmail.hsc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 2771 Sep 25 2002 rbl.hsc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 864 Dec 10 15:00 spamassassin.hsc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 857 Oct 26 12:15 spamc.hsc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 me users 778 Oct 24 16:57 spamd.hsc
some of which are likely not necessary.
Personally I run Hamster via a batch file which adds C:\cygwin\bin to %PATH%
and that means that Hamster scripts can run Cygwin programs, like spamc.hsc
does:
--------
var ( $FileName, $cmdline)
$FileName = paramstr(2)
$cmdline = "spamc.exe -d localhost < "
$cmdline = $cmdline + $FileName
Execute( $cmdline )
--------
But then I'm just perverse and like making software do things it was not
built for :)
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