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Subject:  Re: Running dovecot under Cygwin
Date:  Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:53:06 -0600
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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


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