Re: fixcrio

[Matt Simpson <net-qmlist@jmatt.net>]

At 7:57 PM 1/24/07, Max Andersen wrote:
> I use fixcrio all the time in qmail-smtpd, and recordio only if I'm 
> in trouble :)
> Isn't that enough to use it here, or is the mailserver really really 
> busy, or couldn't you just put in a variable in the midst of this, 
> just before fixcrio, or?
If you want fixcrio to "fix" everything, that's cool.  But in my 
case, it seemed to be breaking stuff on TLS sessions.  I use TLS 
between my own servers, and any other server that wants to encrypt 
traffic to/from me is certainly welcome to do so.  So I didn't want 
fixcrio running on all sessions.
If you do want to use it selectively, you can't just stick a variable 
in the run script to do it.  I tried that, and then people here 
explained to me why it wouldn't work (I should have known better 
anyway).  A variable in the run script is resolved one time, when the 
script is executed and starts tcpserver.  You need a variable that 
gets resolved each time tcpserver starts a new process, and that 
requires tcpserver to run something that knows about that variable, 
e.g the smtpd-wrapper.sh script.