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16/09/2006, 17h33

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Ren$Bi(B Berber wrote:
> Found the problem, mix is not supported under Cygwin, it works fine
> under Solaris.

I haven't tried using mix under Cygwin; and in general I do not support
Cygwin.

For what it's worth, the result you gave wasn't "fine"; both the index and
status files are empty so it isn't a usable mailbox. So you were getting
the truth from mailutil when it failed.

The problem with Cygwin is that it is neither a complete, nor fully
accurate, implementation of UNIX. For example, Cygwin has Windows style
mandatory locks instead of UNIX style advisory locks; this will bite any
application which implements its locking strategy based upon advisory
locks.

Cygwin is best thought of being a compatibility package that allows the
porting of some UNIX applications to Windows. But as a UNIX environment,
Cygwin will never work as well as a true UNIX system, nor will software
running under Cygwin ever work as well as native software written for
Windows.

There is a specific port of UW IMAP to Windows. This port does not
currently have mix support, although it is not outside the realm of
possibility that a Windows mix driver would be developed in the future.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

16/09/2006, 17h33	#6
Mark Crispin Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Converting mailboxes to mix format On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Ren$Bi(B Berber wrote: > Found the problem, mix is not supported under Cygwin, it works fine > under Solaris. I haven't tried using mix under Cygwin; and in general I do not support Cygwin. For what it's worth, the result you gave wasn't "fine"; both the index and status files are empty so it isn't a usable mailbox. So you were getting the truth from mailutil when it failed. The problem with Cygwin is that it is neither a complete, nor fully accurate, implementation of UNIX. For example, Cygwin has Windows style mandatory locks instead of UNIX style advisory locks; this will bite any application which implements its locking strategy based upon advisory locks. Cygwin is best thought of being a compatibility package that allows the porting of some UNIX applications to Windows. But as a UNIX environment, Cygwin will never work as well as a true UNIX system, nor will software running under Cygwin ever work as well as native software written for Windows. There is a specific port of UW IMAP to Windows. This port does not currently have mix support, although it is not outside the realm of possibility that a Windows mix driver would be developed in the future. -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.