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Subject: Re: smtp from inetd (resend)
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 13:58:21 CDT

Drew Derbyshire:
> I got whined at about the previous message being HTML (which was a
> mistake) -- but of course the complainer failed to answer the question. So
> here is again, for those who can't read ASCII text if it happens to have
> HTML clutter ...
>
> Due to a combination of low inbound volume and desire for fast responses to
> a lookup table change (which is not updated by a process with root privs, so
> it can't just "postfix reload"), I'd like to run the postfix SMTPD daemon
> from inetd. The SMTPD man page is unhelpful. What's the incantation?

Postfix smtpd does restart when a file-based DB/DBM file is changed.

Postfix smtpd is not designed to run from inetd.

        Wietse