Hi Brian, > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:54:32PM -0000, Robin Bowes wrote: >> Following a post on the squirrelmail mailing list about a problem which >> turned out to be down to inetd not accepting enough connections fir the >> imap daemon (not courier!) I thought I'd investigate the possiblity of >> running courier-imap from tcpserver (from djb's daemontools package). > > courier-imap comes with its own equivalent program called 'couriertcpd'. It > doesn't run from inetd.
I realised this after I'd posted my original question. > >> I found the following link: >> >> http://projectdream.org/publications/courier.html >> >> Has anyone got any further experience of this? > > Looks very complicated to me. Any idea what their objection is/was to > couriertcpd? They might have been using an old version. I guess it might be standardisation, i.e. having all your daemons starting/running/kept running the same way. > > I've been using Courier for a couple of years, and the early rc scripts were > certainly a bit dodgy and used to need some black magic to make them work, > but now they just run out of the box. > > If you do use daemontools, beware that it doesn't appear to have any usage > or distribution licence that I can find. (And if it did have one which was > like qmail's, it would be very restrictive) I do use daemontools - that's why I am considering running courier-imap under supervise/tcpserver!! Cheers, R. -- Robin Bowes | http://robinbowes.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
