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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
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