Try using tcpserver, I have installed it on my qmail server with no problems.
The package is ucspi-tcp-src on slink, no binary package is allowed so you have to build it. On Mon, 17 May 1999, John Pearson wrote: > Hi! > > I receive my mail via uucp and send it to am internal machine > via smtp; that means that each time I poll, there are many (30-200) > brief smtp connections to my mail spool. > > I noticed today that some incoming messages were queued on my uucp > host, and saw the following in /var/log/syslog on my mail server: > inetd[164]: smtp/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated > although there was no sign of trouble in /var/log/exim/*. > > I'm guessing that exim was forking to perform the local delivery > and was returning so quickly that inetd assumed something was > broken. > > For the moment I'm running exim as a stand-alone daemon rather > than from inetd, but I'd like to be able to use inetd because it > allows me to use TCP wrappers. I also want exim to return quickly > rather than delivering in the foreground. > > How can I get inetd to work nicely with exim? > > > John P. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Corey Ralph Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Manager Phone: (03) 5133 0115 Network Technology Fax: (03) 5133 0805