On 2006-11-04 17:11:04 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: > Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > >On Nov 4, 2006, at 12:48, Tom Smith wrote: > >> [...] > Well, yes... And no. You see, I'm in the process of learning Perl but am > not at the point yet that I can write such plugins.
Just try it. It's really rather simple. I included a very short tutorial at the very end of http://www.hjp.at/projekte/qpsmtpd/tutorial.rxml but that is now a bit dated - it became even simpler in the meantime. (Yeah, I should update that and put it on the wiki, I know) > >>or on things like daemontools. > > > >See qpsmtpd-forkserver. > > > >On a low traffic system it should also be possible to run qpsmtpd from > >(x)inetd. > > Yeah, I did see that. I chose the preferred method as indicated on the > website (or as I perceived anyway). > > Currently, we're only working with a few hundred emails a day. But why > put together a system that doesn't scale well? Hence, I decided on > daemontools. Hmm, http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/quick-install_howto runs forkserver from daemontools. That's nice if you are already using daemontools, but not necessary - you can also run forkserver from a standard SysV initscript. But the point is - it also uses forkserver and doesn't start each qpsmtpd process from tcpserver (which would be the equivalent to (x)inetd). > And as near as I could tell, (x)inetd is no longer supported--is that > not correct? http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/inetd That's correct. I'm not sure (x)inetd was ever officially supported. I submitted the patch several times and I don't remember for sure if it was ever accepted (although I think it was). The RPMs I built always included the patch because xinetd is distributed with Redhat/Fedora while daemontools isn't. When forkserver came out I switched to using forkserver, and obviously didn't check whether (x)inetd support was still working - it was (and still is) broken both in official 0.32 and my RPMs. It was quite a long time until somebody noticed it and that person switched to using forkserver, too. So personally I think (x)inetd support isn't needed any more and I won't even take a closer look to find out what exactly is broken unless * a few people say that they will use my RPMs only if I get (x)inetd support working again or * someone who has commit privilege to the repository indicates some interest in getting (x)inetd support working again. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Schlagfertigkeit ist das, was einem |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | auf dem Nachhauseweg einfällt. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Lars 'Cebewee' Noschinski in dasr. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ |
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