qmail runs fine under inetd. It is just not officially supported by the
author or by this mailing list.
The reason it's not supported is because of the large differences in tcpd and
inetd between the different unices. These differences can sometimes cause
support headaches.
--Adam
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 06:34:50AM -0700, Josh Pennell wrote:
> Hmmm. Inetd under OpenBSD 2.5 consistently envokes the qmail-1.03 smtpd
> daemon. I don't run daemontools, ucspi-tcp or tcpserver.
>
> I also had qmail running under solaris 2.6 (x86 ver) without the above
> requirements?
>
> So what gives? Is it that qmail-1.04 won't work with inetd?
>
> One last note, as the senior developer here always says, "if it was hard
> to write it should be hard to read" ;)
>
>
> > get qmail, but to make it work, also
> > get daemontools and ucspi-tcp. On top of that, near the top of the home
> > page you can read that qmail no longer works with inetd (or am I
> dreaming),
> > which means if you want to be able to receive email with qmail, you need
> > tcpserver or something similar. Or am I just being thick headed, again?
>
