----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Qmail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: CHANGING INETD
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 08:54:54PM -0700, Greg White wrote:
> > qmail will work fine as a daemon, but you get some really handy
> > functionality from running it under tcpserver:
> >
> > 1. RELAYCLIENT environment variable on a per-ip basis.
> >
> > 2. The ability to trivially add rbl filtering to disallow dirty
spamboxen
> > from access to qmail-smtpd.
> >
> > and probably other lovely bits as well.
>
> There seems to be an inordinate amount of misinformation on the list
lately.
>
> None of the qmail programs that depend on listening for network
connections
> (qmail-smtpd, qmail-pop3d, qmail-qmqpd, qmail-qmtpd) can run as a
standalone
> daemon.
SNIP
My bad. Looking back again at the docs etc., I see that I was talking out my
ass about qmail-smtpd as a stand-alone daemon (although I seem to remember
doing this at some point, perhaps pre-1.03, or perhaps my brain fails me yet
again). My own searches on the subject reveal no results, so perhaps I
misremember this completely.
That being said, however, my intention was merely to indicate that even if
one could run qmail-smtpd as a stand-alone daemon, why would one want to
given just the two examples given above as additional functionality.
GW
