Viktor Dukhovni:
> > On Feb 15, 2021, at 9:03 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Is it by chance possible that tcp wrappers will be supported in future at
> >> least as an optionally compiled feature?
> >
> > If you must, you can run "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs" as user "postfix"
> > under TCP Wrappers from inetd.
>
> Please don't read this as an actual recommendation.
>
> * You lose process reuse, expending one process per connection.
> * You lose support for postscreen(8)
> * You lose support for TLS
I just verified that TLS works when running "sendmail -bs" as user
'postfix' from inetd. But I agree that this mode of operation is
suitable only for extraordinary cases.
Wietse
> * Some inetd implementations have suboptimal connection rate limits.
> * You lose process limits from master.cf.
> * There are surely more downsides, ... Don't do this.
>
> --
> Viktor.
>
>
