hi list, today i have got a problem with the postfix-smtpd. on my machine there is pop-before-smtp-system running, writing the poppers-client-ip into a hash which is used by the postfix-smtpd. unfortunately this pop-before-smtp-mechanism sometimes was to slow and by this the first email often was rejected (latency of just 1-2 sec between pop and smtpd). now i tried to run the postfix-smtpd over the inetd, but using a shellskript for smtpd in the inetd-conf: #!/bin/bash /bin/sleep 2 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs the bad news: after doing this NO rejecting was performed any longer ;-( why? i thougth the sendmail-command is a substitution by postfix and my script starts the same daemon as defined in the master.cf by postfix. does anybody out there know something about this? best regards, daniel -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net