Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] Did you add imapd to /etc/services? Well, I never even knew about this file before, but there's a line saying: imap 143/tcpimap4 #Internet Message Access Protocol Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? The above question doesn't seem to have anything to do with Cygwin. Yeah, but I thought I'd try here first since Cygwin seemed (at least to me) to be the much more likely culprit. (What I'm ultimately trying to do is have all my downloaded (via POP) mail stored on my computer and accessible via IMAP, so that I can access it using a variety of mail clients - GUI (Thunderbird), CLI (mutt), and HTTP (don't know what to try).) That's the usual reason for using an IMAP server. This doesn't make the above question any more Cygwin-related. Nope, but when I ask folks for help on something, they often want to know what my overall goal is, so that they might help me out better. HTH, Igor P.S. It's usually a bad idea to have spaces in your Cygwin username. Yeah, I learned that over time the hard way. I have to redefine HOME to a space-less symbolic link pointing to my true HOME. -- 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/
Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? The above question doesn't seem to have anything to do with Cygwin. Yeah, but I thought I'd try here first since Cygwin seemed (at least to me) to be the much more likely culprit. The question was about configuring imapd, in particular, about the fact that most of imapd's configuration was done at compile time. How can Cygwin be a culprit of that? [snip] P.S. It's usually a bad idea to have spaces in your Cygwin username. Yeah, I learned that over time the hard way. I have to redefine HOME to a space-less symbolic link pointing to my true HOME. FYI, you can also edit /etc/passwd and change the username (first field) for your user to one without a space, so that Cygwin doesn't see that space. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: I had posted this earlier as a sub-question, but I guess not a lot of people saw it I don't know much about xinetd and imapd beyond the general basics, but let me take a shot at answering. See below. [snip] Aside #1: how does this know what port to work with? I know what the default imap port is (143), but how does xinetd know? See http://google.com/search?q=man+%2Fetc%2Fservices, or man 4 services on your favorite Linux machine. Aside #2: there are a lot of other services under xinetd.d. Does that mean these are all currently enabled? For instance, ftpd is there...so someone could be FTPing into my box right now? (In fact, just now I ran 'nc localhost 21' and it works...gulp...!) Apparently yes. Aside #3: if ssh were also under xinetd.d (it's not currently), wouldn't that conflict with the ssh service that I already set up as a Service (as instructed at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html)? Yes, it would, if both xinetd and sshd services were started at the same time. The one started later will not be able to bind to the sshd port. Back to main question: I managed to get init and xinetd working (at least I can see their processes in taskmgr). However, when I try to connect to localhost (no SSL) using Thunderbird, it says that the connection was refused, without giving me a chance to login. I also tried 'nc localhost 143', but got a connection refused (basically the same thing I see as running 'nc localhost random number'). I've done a ton of searching to get where I am, but now I'm at a dead end. Any ideas? Did you add imapd to /etc/services? Does this have anything to do with the old add 'Everyone' to passwd hack? (A more recent post warned us NOT to add this to passwd.) Doubtful. Another thing...how easy is it to configure UW-IMAP? From what I've read, it seems that *everything* is configured in the source or Makefile (no conf files, etc.). /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/uw-imap-2002e.README says the author modified it from what's on http://sourceforge.net/projects/uw-imap-cygwin/, so what exactly should I be modifying? The canonical homepage just points to the original UW-IMAP site. I looked for but didn't find any personal website of Abraham Backus. Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? The above question doesn't seem to have anything to do with Cygwin. (What I'm ultimately trying to do is have all my downloaded (via POP) mail stored on my computer and accessible via IMAP, so that I can access it using a variety of mail clients - GUI (Thunderbird), CLI (mutt), and HTTP (don't know what to try).) That's the usual reason for using an IMAP server. This doesn't make the above question any more Cygwin-related. Please let me know if any further info is needed (I've included cygcheck -srv below). Thanks in advance! HTH, Igor P.S. It's usually a bad idea to have spaces in your Cygwin username. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd
Some corrections below... On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: [snip] Aside #3: if ssh were also under xinetd.d (it's not currently), wouldn't that conflict with the ssh service that I already set up as a Service (as instructed at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html)? Yes, it would, if both xinetd and sshd services were started at the same time. ..., i.e., were attempted to run concurrently. The one started later will not be able to bind to the sshd port. Back to main question: I managed to get init and xinetd working (at least I can see their processes in taskmgr). However, when I try to connect to localhost (no SSL) using Thunderbird, it says that the connection was refused, without giving me a chance to login. I also tried 'nc localhost 143', but got a connection refused (basically the same thing I see as running 'nc localhost random number'). I've done a ton of searching to get where I am, but now I'm at a dead end. Any ideas? Did you add imapd to /etc/services? ^ Sorry for the typo. Make that 'the imap line', e.g. $ grep imap /etc/services imap 143/tcpimap4 #Internet Message Access Protocol $ Another thing...how easy is it to configure UW-IMAP? [snip] Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? Since I was correcting the typo, might as well point to it: http://washington.edu/imap/c-client-list.html, from the mailing lists section of http://washington.edu/imap/ Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/
RE: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd
For the xinetd question (how does it know what port?), it uses the imap string (e.g. service imap) to look up in /etc/services to discover the port to bind with. Read the link provided by Igor for a more thorough explanation. Also, check that you've restarted your service after adding the entry/file to configure xinetd for imap. Once you have restarted, use the netstat -n command to check that something is listening on the imap port. If nothing shows up for 143, take a look at your Windows Event Log. If you want to configure some more advanced things (anything in particular?), you'll need to download the source and mess with makefiles. For your purpose however (a personal imap server), I don't think you'd need to configure it any more than it already has been. I have it set up to do the same thing and it works great. If you find that you need to configure it, the UW c-client mailing list is a good starting point for non-cygwin questions about UW-IMAP. Take a look at the link that Igor sent for information about the list. For HTTP access to your imap server, I've heard of people using squirrelmail. -Abe -- 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/
