Ronny wrote: > i am trying to get imap server "dovecot" running under cygwin. > > Compiling the server finished without any errors. > But running the server does not work. > > 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. > > 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. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
