On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 08:08:40AM +0200, Antonio Messina wrote:
> I have a little question: i was thinking that running a program from
> inetd introduces an overhead; on a high traffic smtp server this
> implies many many forks. Is there a way to setup qmail-smtpd to run
> standalone, as we can do with apache, that when it starts already has
> a number (5, 10, or some other configurable number) of child listening?
No, there isn't a way to do that.
> If that is possible, is a good solution? and how could it run with
> tcpd or tcpserver?
To run qmail-smtpd from tcpserver, see
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/faq/servers.html#tcpserver-smtpd.
Chris
