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.
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