staring imapd from command line?

[David Loszewski]

yes, I think you can however courier uses the Maildir style for qmail
instead of the mail style for sendmail, unless I'm wrong

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Karlsson" <mk-freebsd at bredband.net>
To: "Joshua Oreman" <oremanj at www.get-linux.org>
Cc: "David Loszewski" <lists at bsdadmins.net>; <questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: staring imapd from command line?


>
> Hi,
>
> * Joshua Oreman <oremanj at www.get-linux.org> [2003-07-05 13.27 -0700]:
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:04:25PM -0400 or thereabouts, David Loszewski
wrote:
> > > I don't use inetd for security reasons but am now trying to start
imapd from the command line, if I do '/usr/local/libexec/imapd &'  this
happens:
> > >
> > > hermes# * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS
LOGINDISABLED] hermes.bsdadmins.net IMAP4rev1 2003.337 at Sat, 5 Jul 2003
16:07:17 -0500 (EST)
> > >
> > > [1]  + Suspended (tty input)         /usr/local/libexec/imapd
> > >
> > > How do I make this work?
> >
> > Make an /etc/inetd.conf file with one line to start imapd. Sorry, you
have to.
> [...snip...]
>
> I seem to remember that you can start courier's imapd
> (/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap) from a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d,
> without having to use inetd.  Presumably, starting it directly from
> the command line would work as well(?).  Please note, however, that
> it has been a while since I used it, so you may want to investigate
> it further before going there.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Martin Karlsson
>