Re: qpsmtpd or qpsmtpd-server or qpsmtpd-forkserver

roger-qp-list <at> rope.net wrote:
> 	As just installed, it appears that the run file invokes 'qpsmtpd'.
> The qpsmtpd-server wants to use Qpsmtpd::SelectServer instead of
> Qpsmtpd::TcpServer. Okay, what's the difference?

I don't think the SelectServer code is actually working; I believe that was 
Matt's first attempt at writing a select() style server.  If you want to 
experiment, you can download the high_perf branch.

> 	And since I want to run the forkserver version anyway, should my
> run file use 'qpsmtpd-forkserver' instead of 'qpsmtpd'?

You don't need tcpserver with the forkserver installation.  Personally, I use a 
DJB envdir-style installation (which I keep meaning to commit to the repository 
as an alternative mode of operation).  My run file looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
exec 2>&1 \
envdir ./env \
sh -c '
     exec \
         softlimit ${DATALIMIT+"-d$DATALIMIT"} \
         ${PERL-perl} -T ./qpsmtpd-forkserver \
         --listen-address "${IP-0}" \
         --port "${PORT-25}" \
         --limit-connections "${MAXCLIENTS-15}" \
         --user "${QPUSER-smtpd}"
'

and I create env/* files as appropriate for the machine I am configuring.  I had