On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 07:46:52PM -0700, Al Sparks wrote:
> Anyway, while on this thread it has occurred to me to ask why put qmail
> in either inetd or tcpserver? Why not run it as a daemon? At the
> moment my test box is running it in inetd because I did a quick
> cookbook install. I didn't see anything, off hand anyway, that told me
> how to do that. Coming from the sendmail world, that would be my
> initial preference (especially since the box would be dedicated to
> email anyway).
I'm sure several people on this list could explain why that is a bad
idea and why DJB chose not to design it that way, but I'll give you the
easy anser: Because you can't. It won't listen to a port all by
itself. tcpserver creates the connection and then passes it off to
qmail-smtpd.
Ben
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