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From: "Abraham Backus" <abraham AT backus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: IMAP server, anyone?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 23:11:52 -0700
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To make it "silent and invisible", I run inetd as an NT service and I have
the following line in /etc/inetd.conf:
imap stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/imapd

To have inetd run as a service, do the following after installing the
inetutils package:
/usr/sbin/inetd --install-as-service

Now you shouldn't have any useless console windows hanging around :)

Of course you may already be doing this and there's a different issue that's
forcing you to have the console window?

In my case, I use fetchmail running as an NT service under cygrunsrv with my
user credentials to grab all my email from a few ISP accounts.  Fetchmail
then invokes procmail, and procmail calls the appropriate UW imap tool to
inject each email into the imap system.

I don't know a whole lot about procmail, just enough to use it for sorting
mail... here's an example of a section in my ~/procmail/rc.filtering file:

:0 wr
* ^TO_cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
|/usr/bin/tmail Abe+cygwin

:0 wr
* ^TO_cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
|/usr/bin/tmail Abe+cygwin


----- Original Message -----

> 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. Sure, I can
> have Exim or Procmail store mail there, but I want to keep everything
> inside my Cygwin directory structure, and my mail in my $HOME
> directory.
>
> But I am having two problems with UW imapd:
>
> 1: It's not "silent and invisible" enough. It won't disconnect from
> the terminal, say, like Exim, so you always have that useless console
> window hanging about. It therefore fails requirement B.
>
> 2: I still haven't been able to make it work. Not too easy. Way to
> pass requirement A!  :-)



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