X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Running dovecot under Cygwin Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:53:06 -0600 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Ronny wrote: > i am trying to get imap server "dovecot" running under cygwin. >=20 > Compiling the server finished without any errors. > But running the server does not work. >=20 > As far as i can see, dovecot runs a master process, that uses execv to > launch a child (auth) process. The child process is killed immedeatly. > This causes the whole server to shutdown. >=20 > Does anybody have experience with running dovecot under cygwin? Why not go to the Dovecot site: http://wiki.dovecot.org/OSCompatibility It clearly states that "Cygwin works after a few code changes, but doesn't support SCM_RIGHTS" so you have to use inetd to start the imap server... > uw-imap, that is distributed with cygwin does not match with my needs. I > am looking for an imap server taht supports virtual user using a user > database. Untested: there are uw-imap options to use PAM (not supported in Cygwin) and LDAP, this might work. Probably making Dovecot work is easier. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/