Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/08/15/06:36:29
Michael Grand wrote:
> René Berber wrote:
>
>> Probably your firewall is blocking any communication.
>
> I have tried this with the firewall turned off, and I still cannot
> connect. The port is in the allow list, so it should work anyways.
> Would AVG or SpySweeper block the pop3 and imap ports? Exim appears to
> work fine, and I rather doubt that the previously named programs would
> not block smtp as well.
They tend to proxy incoming mail ports. If you happen to be running a
mailserver on localhost, this is usually going to break.
>
>> I don't get any log output from inetd, so this is strange (and TBird
>> is opening
>> and closing several connections all the time, imapd does send some
>> output to
>> syslogd).
Almost all of those connections will be to AVG (though thunderbird will
not be aware of that).
>
> I added -d (debugging) to the arguments list in the hopes that it would
> yield further information on the problem.
>
>> Since I assume /usr/sbin/uw-imapd.exe does exist (no need to put the
>> .exe), I
>> have no idea what is wrong, perhaps "C:\Cygwin\bin" is not on your global
>> (Windows) PATH and the required libraries (.dll) can't be found.
>
> PATH has "c:\cygwin\bin" in it.
>
In the user variables or system variables? (System Properties, Advanced,
Environment Variables)
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