[Zope] MailDropHost on windows

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Tue Feb 14 13:10:56 EST 2006


On 14 Feb 2006, at 17:58, Erik Myllymaki wrote:

> I'm trying to get MailDropHost running under windows, but it errors  
> with:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File ".\maildrop.py", line 296, in ?
>     pid = os.fork()
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'fork'
>
> Altering it to run without threading seems to work quite well.

It's forking not to use threading per se but to use threads as a way  
to completely detach from the console.

I will update the documentation to specifically mention that Windows  
is not officially supported, that was my oversight.

jens



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