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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