Cyrus IMAPD

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 9 14:03:53 PDT 2003


On 09-May-2003 Bill Dorsey wrote:
> Has anyone met with any success in getting Cyrus IMAPD working on a 
> Sparc64 platform?  I am trying to upgrade an older Sparc32 machine with 
> an Ultrasparc.  Cyrus IMAPD handles all my mail delivery.
> 
> It seems to build fine, but after I start the master process, I am 
> unable to contact the imap daemon on the localhost as recommended by 
> the configure-testing.html file that comes with Cyrus.
> 
> A look in the imap log file reveals the following:
> 
> May  4 17:51:01 test master[41874]: about to exec 
> /usr/local/cyrus/bin/imapd
> May  4 17:51:01 test service-imap[41874]: executed
> 
> However, the imap daemon does not display the banner line as it does on 
> my Sparc32 machine so it appears to be getting stuck somewhere.
> 
> I assume this is likely a 64-bit issue?
> 
> On the bright side, I'm getting a lot more stuff to work under 
> FreeBSD/Sparc64 than I was under NetBSD/Sparc64.  Kudos to the folks 
> responsible for the porting effort!

What are you using to test?  imtest?  Does 'imtest localhost' hang
before generating any output?

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