thanks everyone for the quick response... now, my next question - does it
not seem a little extreme to say that simply
"qmail 1.03 no longer supports inetd."
and then link to the ucspi-tcp package, which you kinda have to figure out
for yourself that that's what the link is trying to tell you, when it is, as
you all say, quite possible that qmail-smptd WILL run under inetd (maybe OS
dependent)?
Or is the intent of Russ and DJB to get us all downloading and using
software which we all still argue about licensing over, which in the end
they will come out and charge us for back usage or get the hell off?
Sure, that's an extreme scenario, but maybe THAT's the kind of information
we should see on the site - with no room for misinterpretation, this package
runs on some inetds - click here to see the list. Oh, and by the way, we
recommend that you instead use our ucspi package, which only costs $x in
licensing fees.
What I'm hearing a lot of on this list and on the web site is "qmail is
great, everything else is broken," which I'm prone to believe, but the
longer I hang around, it seems exactly the opposite.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy L. Mayo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 10:44 AM
> To: Josh Pennell
> Cc: Lyndon Griffin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Kurt's Closet on qmail
>
>
> qmail works just fine under inetd. It is just that Dan and most people on
> this list will no longer support you if you have problems getting it
> configured in the first place if you are trying to use inetd. There are
> too many busted inetd implementations out there.
>
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, 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?
> >
> >
>
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