Error when attempting to start inetd

Chris Taylor chris@equate.dyndns.org
Wed Aug 15 10:39:00 GMT 2007


Michael Grand wrote:
> René Berber wrote:
> 
>> Probably your firewall is blocking any communication.
> 
> I have tried this with the firewall turned off, and I still cannot 
> connect. The port is in the allow list, so it should work anyways.  
> Would AVG or SpySweeper block the pop3 and imap ports?  Exim appears to 
> work fine, and I rather doubt that the previously named programs would 
> not block smtp as well.

They tend to proxy incoming mail ports. If you happen to be running a 
mailserver on localhost, this is usually going to break.

> 
>> I don't get any log output from inetd, so this is strange (and TBird 
>> is opening
>> and closing several connections all the time, imapd does send some 
>> output to
>> syslogd).

Almost all of those connections will be to AVG (though thunderbird will 
not be aware of that).

> 
> I added -d (debugging) to the arguments list in the hopes that it would 
> yield further information on the problem.
> 
>> Since I assume /usr/sbin/uw-imapd.exe does exist (no need to put the 
>> .exe), I
>> have no idea what is wrong, perhaps "C:\Cygwin\bin" is not on your global
>> (Windows) PATH and the required libraries (.dll) can't be found.
> 
> PATH has "c:\cygwin\bin" in it.
> 


In the user variables or system variables? (System Properties, Advanced, 
Environment Variables)

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