Author: endre Date: To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [Exim] exim & intetd
> reason to have support via inetd in the first place? Other than the
> fact that you may wish to run a MTA out of inetd/xinetd due to limited
> system resources...but if you don't have enough resources, why run a
> MTA in the first place...
You may want to run anything from inetd on a bigger box too if you trust
inetd's security better than the daemon. Inetd can open a privileged
port for any program that can handle stdin/stdout and then run it as an
unprivileged user. I'm sure this isn't a useless feature.
