Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

["IfThenSoftware" <ifthensoftware at hotmail dot com>]

René Berber wrote:

> Wrong again, I have a soft link, not a hard link.  It doesn't make a 
> difference
> but you could also use:
>
> ln -s /var/mail /var/spool/mail
>
> But there's something wrong here, you said /var/mail does exist, it didn't 
> in my
> case.  I had /var/spool/mail and created the link as `ln -s 
> /var/spool/mail
> /var/mail`, I used the wrong order after looking at your message, but I 
> don't
> think it is right.

I think /var/mail exists because I followed the instructions in this 
article: http://pigtail.net/LRP/exim/exim-cygwin.html

> Better debug at the imapd level, run imapd:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/imapd
> * PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LITERAL+ IDLE UIDPLUS NAMESPACE CHILDREN
> MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT ESEARCH SCAN SORT THREAD=REFERENCES
> THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND] Pre-authenticated user rberber black
> IMAP4rev1 2006i.385 at Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:22:22 -0500
> a01 logout
> * BYE black IMAP4rev1 server terminating connection
> a01 OK LOGOUT completed
>
> You probably will get the error when the user's mailbox can't be found. 
> If
> there's no error then I was wrong and imapd uses 
> /var/spool/mail/<username> not
> /var/mail/<username> (of course it could be exim the one using 
> /var/mail/... so
> imapd will not see the messages.)

I don't have an imapd, all I have is a uw-imapd.  When I run it, it does not 
give any output. 


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