[Zope] Re: MailDropHost on windows

[Tres Seaver]

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Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> 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.

A sufficiently clever / motivated person could probably adapt the code
from 'zopeservice.py' to run the MailDropHost daemon as a service in
Windwos.


Tres.
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