x writes:
> From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > How is it "unefficient"? What measurements have you made that shows
> > this?
> i haven't done any measurements, thought of many http cgi tests.
Oh, well, guessing doesn't go very far on this mailing list.
> if buffer owerflows are unlikely to appear within qmail-smtpd why
> not just make it standalone. using fork for that does not require many
> changes.
Go for it, then.
> From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Of course, you can run any smtpd that you wish,
> > once you teach it to talk to qmail-queue (which is quite simple).
>
> hmm.. write message somewhere to mess/xx,
> add file with appropriate content in todo/ and intd/ ?
You don't have permission to do that. Only the qmailq user has that
permission. qmail-queue is the only setuid program in qmail, and
about the only thing it does is write one file descriptor to
mess/xx/yy, and another file descriptor to todo/.
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