"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > He was reading some advice to Gerrit Haase to put tabs instead of > > spaces in /etc/services to get exim working on cygwin. > > Yes, but that was not my problem and it didn't solved it. > Unfortunately I cannot say what went wrong with my handcrafted > build,
That's history, not worth worrying about. The /etc/services file on Windows can contain spaces. I wish messages with incorrect advice could be purged! Aldon's problem was due to running exim as a non-sufficiently privileged exim user (details still missing). He is OK running as system. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/