On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 03:32:11PM -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
> > A doable, but perhaps non-trivial, programming project would be to
> > start with Apple's Postfix sources, and port that functionality to
> > BSD and/or Linux.
>
> Not very doable, because the trigger was handled by launchd, Apple's
> systemd-like facility. The timed death of the Postfix master process is
> in the standard distribution (-e option.)
That's not a problem, the inotify bit does not *have to* to be part of
systemd or similar, it can be a separate queue monitoring process run by
systemd or similar. That does leave the possibility of that process not
running, but the same can be true of a normal Postfix system.
--
Viktor.
