UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

[overbored]

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/tcp    imap4                  #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.

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