Hello, I thought I'd send out a copy of these notes for the archives... :-D
[If someone more knowledgeable out there would be prepared to check I've not done anything stupid, that'd be much appreciated!! :-)] -- I am experimenting with various OSes on my PC. I wanted a platform independent way of storing my e-mail. Courier-IMAP seemed good, especially as I have Unix Maildirs e-mail clients... Here's how I got it to build under cygwin: 1. Need to enable NTFS Extended Attributes for Cygwin Edit C:\CYGWIN\CYGWIN.BAT Add a line before bash is run: SET CYGWIN=ntea this lets file permissions work properly. 2. Go to the cygwin bash prompt. N.B. Archive MUST be unpacked from within cygwin so that permissions work out OK. tar -xvzf /..../courier-imap-1.4.6.tar.gz (/..../ is wherever you put the tarball) ./configure --disable-root-check --without-authldap --with-waitfunc=wait Courier uses colons in filenames to implement soft quotas. Win32 does not support the colon in filenames, the following patch adds a header maildir/mdirsep.h which defines the separator character to use. ( fetch mypatch.txt from http://rodgers.org.uk/rodgers/courier-imap/mypatch.txt ) patch -Np1 < mypatch.txt make make install make install-configure copy cygwin1.dll into the windows system directory. /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc start Passwords can be set up using /etc/userdb as per the manual. It's running! Yours, Chris Rodgers http://rodgers.org.uk/ PGP Key: http://rodgers.org.uk/ChrisRodgersPGPKey.htm "LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy." Hab 3:2 NIV. ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
