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From: andy@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andy S Poling)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail from inetd?
Summary: not hard
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Date: 3 Jan 91 23:31:56 GMT
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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".
[...]
>Has anybody done anything like this?  Do any of the sendmail gurus see any
>reason why this would not work, or any other pitfalls / problems?

Sure, I run it from tcplisten (which is very similiar to inetd, but less
flexible and doesn't do UDP).  I wrote smtpd.c (a name which inevitably has
already been used but who cares...), which is about 80 lines long, to exec
sendmail with command line arguments telling it to whom it is speaking.  I
had to do this to combat our machine's broken socket/streams implimentation.

It should take less than 5 minutes to convert it for use with inetd.  It
isn't exactly rocket science, but I'll provide a copy to anybody who's
interested.  Just drop me a line...

-Andy

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