Hi Thomas,
Delivering some background:
This is my home desktop-box on which various members of the family work (hence
windows). The IMAP server is simply a means of being able to access my emails
which have been sorted in subfolders on various laptops. For various reasons
including the fact that we talk several tens of GBs and that I'm not trusting
a well known internet giant with my email history of the last 15 odd years.
The IMAP server itself is actually not connected to any email account (i.e. it
only receives email I actually move there).
That being said, it seems it is actually way too much pain. UW-IMAP was a
breeze to install on cygwin and was doing well (beyond not being able to deal
with proper subfolders). Yes, there are about 10 different ways I could do
this (e.g. creating a share instead of an offline imap server). I was just
naively expecting things to work, in particular when there is a wiki online on
how to do it. Seems I'm giving up. would have been cool, but I don't feel in
the position of debugging cygwin dlls. I think I know enough about the unix
world, but Windows :-/
Anyway, thanks all for your time. I might pick it up again, but for now ...
Best,
Stefan.
On 15/08/2011 18:10, Thomas Jacob wrote:
> Not wanting to go off topic too much, but I am wondering
> why you try to go to the trouble of getting courier-imap
> to run on Cygwin at all, when there are so many virtualization
> application available for Windows as well.
>
> After all, it's well known that Cygwin does not and for some aspects
> simply cannot support the full POSIX API and is also really slow,
> depending on what you do with it. Cygwin is a wonderful thing for
> the desktop to play with, but it is a production ready replacement
> for a standard conforming POSIX Unix environment that ensures every
> little part of courier-imap is run the same way as on the real thing?
> I wouldn't rely on that.
>
> A fully functional and robust email infrastructure tends to be pretty
> important for many people, if you are among that group, why
> not simply install your favourite distribution in your
> favourite virtualization system on your Windows server
> and be done with it? ;)
>
> The extra main memory overhead shouldn't be more than a couple of
> 100MiB.
>
> Just my two cents...
>
>> Not really. The file is actually in the filesystem and has the
>> appearance of a unix domain socket.
>>
>> $ ls -al /usr/local/var/spool/authdaemon/socket.lnk
>> srwxrwxrwx 1 smp None 0 Aug 14 13:16
>> trying to open this however, fails with "no such file or directory",
>> which means the symlink/emulation information is missing.
>
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