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- From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
- Subject: Re: sendmail implementations
- In-Reply-To: mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu's message of 11 Sep 92 12:20:21 -0800
- Message-ID: <VIXIE.92Sep11142202@cognition.pa.dec.com>
- Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
- Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
- References: <1992Sep11.122021.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:22:02
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- inetd just sets up the stdin/stdout of the process to be the incoming net
- stream. you need to make sure sendmail will start up wanting to speak smtp
- on stdin/stdout; try "-bs -ba" for this.
-
- however, you really really really do not want to do this. sendmail is its
- own daemon for a set of good reasons which, if you do not understand them,
- you should not ignore.
- --
- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab
- Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
- <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find
- <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me
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