# > >Qmail can't even handle any kind of a reasonable load, right out of the
# > >box.  You have to go back and install tcpserver for that.
# > 
# > For those whose inetd's can't be configured to allow higher connection 
# > rates, yes, tcpserver is required. Big deal.
# 
# No inetd in existance can be configured for higher connections, yet still
# implement load limiting.  Nobody running Qmail in any kind of a production
# mode will be able to get it work with inetd.
umm, I beg to differ, running qmail as a gateway between firewall and
internet, using inetd with several thousand messages a day, and we were
running mailing lists from this box at one time, 
Messages: 44095        
Recipients: 49684
Average message tries: 1.14809
Total delivery attempts: 51010
  success: 49670
  failure: 114
  deferral: 1226
Message bytes: 1066205787
Message bytes weighted by success: 1132410514
Time span (days): 6.89296
Average message qtime (s): 58.583
Average xdelay (s): 2.91404
Average ddelay (s): 20.424
Average concurrency: 0.249593

and we have not experienced the inetd looping problem


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