UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

Sun Aug 29 00:56:00 GMT 2004

I had posted this earlier as a sub-question, but I guess not a lot of 
people saw it....
I'm trying to get an IMAP server running, and it seems my only option 
today is uw-imapd. The cygwin package for that is installed, and I 
created an 'imap' file under xinetd.d with the following:
# default: off
# description: The IMAP service allows remote users to access their mail 
using \
# an IMAP client such as Mutt, Pine, fetchmail, or Netscape \
# Communicator.
service imap
{
 socket_type = stream
 wait = no
 user = root
 server = /usr/sbin/imapd
 log_on_success += HOST DURATION
 log_on_failure += HOST
 disable = no
}
Aside #1: how does this know what port to work with? I know what the 
default imap port is (143), but how does xinetd know?
Aside #2: there are a lot of other services under xinetd.d. Does that 
mean these are all currently enabled? For instance, ftpd is there...so 
someone could be FTPing into my box right now? (In fact, just now I ran 
'nc localhost 21' and it works...gulp...!)
Aside #3: if ssh were also under xinetd.d (it's not currently), wouldn't 
that conflict with the ssh service that I already set up as a Service 
(as instructed at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html)?
Back to main question: I managed to get init and xinetd working (at 
least I can see their processes in taskmgr). However, when I try to 
connect to localhost (no SSL) using Thunderbird, it says that the 
connection was refused, without giving me a chance to login. I also 
tried 'nc localhost 143', but got a connection refused (basically the 
same thing I see as running 'nc localhost <random number>'). I've done a 
ton of searching to get where I am, but now I'm at a dead end. Any ideas?
Does this have anything to do with the old "add 'Everyone' to passwd" 
hack? (A more recent post warned us NOT to add this to passwd.)
Another thing...how easy is it to configure UW-IMAP? From what I've 
read, it seems that *everything* is configured in the source or Makefile 
(no conf files, etc.). /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/uw-imap-2002e.README says 
the author modified it from what's on 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uw-imap-cygwin/, so what exactly should 
I be modifying? The canonical homepage just points to the original 
UW-IMAP site. I looked for but didn't find any personal website of 
Abraham Backus.
(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).)
Please let me know if any further info is needed (I've included cygcheck 
-srv below). Thanks in advance!
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