Re: Postfix design directions

[wietse () PORCUPINE ORG (Wietse Venema)]

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