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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail from inetd?
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.092822.20859@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 09:28:22 GMT
References: <8653@uwm.edu>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <8653@uwm.edu> jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) writes:
>I was wondering if anybody has tried the following:
>
>Can sendmail be run from inetd?  sendmail has the option to run SMTP on
>stdin/out, and if  possible, I'd like to run it that way instead of "-bd".
 
>Sendmail: v5.65 (mx, no IDA).
>System: IBM 6152 RT's running a modified AOS4.3 (very close to BSD)
 
Odd that you should ask this! sendmail on AIX has this capability and my
question always was why someone would want to introduce this "feature":-}.
The quick answer to your question is 'NO' you cannot do this without code
change. AIX introduced a special option '-bn' to support this, the code
is not too extensive but unfortunately also not freely available. You also
would not want to use the AIX 2.2.1 binary since its hopelessly back-level
(doesn't do MX even). When I ported 5.61 to AIX 1.2 I carried this code
forward although its not used by default I believe. If this is really that
important to you send me email and I can give you a rough description of
what the code needs to do.

Disclaimer: I do not speak for my employer.

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Jack F. Vogel			jackv@locus.com
AIX370 Technical Support	       - or -
Locus Computing Corp.		jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM