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Subject: Re: Launching Postfix form inetd?
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 06:09:31 CDT

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Michal Fita wrote:

> Is it possible to launching postfix from inetd?

No. Postfix' master program launches the other daemons.

> I tried to use sendmail -bs but if qmgr is not running messages stayed in
> queue and was not written to mailboxes.

Of course not. Postfix has a modular design, see the Anatomy pages in
your documentation. As such, it separates accepting mail from delivering
mail.

> I don't want to launch standalone postfix, because I will have many
> virtual domains on my machine (chroot'ed).

There's no need for separate instances. chroot from master.cf and you're
set. See the examples that show how to set up a chroot environment. 

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Matthias Andree