Re: LMTP hackings

Subject: Re: LMTP hackings
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 14:04:40 CST

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Note that the 19991231 release has a little "spawn" daemon for
testing that can run the LMTP server off a UNIX-domain socket or
off an internet socket, whatever you specify in master.cf.

        Wietse

Amos Gouaux:
> For those that might be interested, I've tared up another "rev" of
> the lmtp-19990427 patch. The URL is:
>
> http://ftp.utdallas.edu/pub/staff/amos/postfix/lmtp-19990427-05.tar.gz
>
> My previous hackings dropped the cached connections support as I was
> learning how stuff works. I've added the cached connections back
> in, and we've been using it on our systems for a couple of weeks.
>
> You may want to fiddle with the number of instances of lmtp you have
> as well as the max_use setting in main.cf. While I suspect it would
> not be wise to pump up max_use too high, I've been running with it
> at 200 and it seems to be okay. I've also got the number of lmtp
> sessions currently set at 3.
>
> To install, cd into the Postfix source dir and untar the file above,
> then apply the following two patches:
>
> patch -p0 < lmtp/makefile-patch
> patch -p0 < lmtp/global-patch
>
> These diffs were done against postfix-19991231-pl02.
>
> Currently, this version of lmtp supports both pipes and inet
> connections. This will very likely change in some subsequent
> rendition. Instead, it will only use either UNIX domain sockets or
> inet sockets. An additional process will be responsible for running
> deliver in LMTP mode. This is so that things are better
> compartmentalized into the appropriate pieces for the respective
> task. The current offering is simply made as an interim solution.
> So if you use this, realize that the configuration of the various
> pieces will be changing.
>
> Amos
>
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