Re: Postfix design directions

From: Wietse Venema (wietseat_private)
Date: Wed Dec 23 1998 - 20:49:51 PST

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    Peter van Dijk:
    > 3) Use a UNIX socket, TCP/IP, named pipes, whatever you want, to communicate
    > between user-level, user-owned processes (which might be a nice sendmail-like
    > interface) and a long-running process that writes into the queue.
    >
    > No s[ug]id execution, no world-writeable dirs, just a small performance hit.
    
    Unfortunately, that means that mail cannot be posted when the
    mail daemon is not running.
    
            Wietse
    



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