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Marek Telgarsky wrote:

[snip]
> So presumably maildir (with courier, rather than mbox with uw-imap) would
> somewhat alleviate this problem?

I don't know, it depends on how maildir works.  I've interest in UW because=
 of the new mix format, which is an indexed set of files... but that has ot=
her problems under Cygwin (probably easier to solve than the locks).

[snip]
> I can't make it run on the command line or as a service. According to the=
 docs on
> the courier site, authdaemond sits around and starts some other processes,
> dumping info about it to syslog. When run from the command line as a norm=
al user,
> it just exits, not putting anything into /var/log/messages. When run as a
> service, /var/log/messages gets:
>=20
> Sep 30 23:17:21 Package authd: PID 3976: `authd' service stopped, exit st=
atus: 5
>=20
> But I think that is something cygrunsrv outputs, not authdaemond.

Are you installing it as a service with "cygrunsrv ... -x <pid-file> -a ...=
" ?  Otherwise cygrunsrv will report that the daemon stopped when it detach=
es (you should be able to see the process running in that case).

>> Running under what user & what Windows version?
>=20
> WinXP SP2, ran on command line as myself, tried as service with default S=
YSTEM user.

To run as user in XP you'll need to put yourself in the administrators grou=
ps (powerusers may also work), but that's only interesting if the daemon ha=
s a debug or verbose mode.
=20
>> No messages in the event log (or syslog if you are using it)?
>=20
> Not for authdaemond (I think).

Strange that the daemon doesn't write anything, the output is well identifi=
ed in the syslog with the usual syntax  (date host process PID message).

[snip]
> Yes, incomplete. I posted the configure/make instructions in the hope tha=
t it
> helps someone else get far enough to help out. :-D
>=20
>> Dovecot is another server that compiles easily, but their Wiki seems to =
point to
> the same problem with advisory locking under Cygwin.
>=20
> I didn't realize Dovecot had similar problems to uw-imap. I chose Courier=
 because
> it supports maildir and seems to have good reviews.

Probably all of them are good (I've only used Cyrus and UW-imap), but under=
 Windows I think that the highest feature on the list is how they manage us=
ers: virtual, real local or real from a server (LDAP or Windows equivalent =
or Unix server), along with reliability.

>> As you can see, there are a few of us interested in this subject but, as=
 you
> say, there isn't much experience reported.
>=20
> Would be cool if it was part of the distribution, eventually.

Yes, it's needed to go along with Exim.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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