smtpfront(8)

NAME
smtpfront - SMTP Front Ends

SYNOPSIS
smtpfront

DESCRIPTION
The code for SMTP is divided internally into two sections: front-end and back-end code. The front-end code handles the low-level details of the protocol. The back-end code handles the validation and delivery details in a protocol-independant fashion.

FEATURES
The following features are common to all SMTP front-ends:

o   Validates senders and recipients according to ``mailrules'' processing.

o   If $RELAYCLIENT is set, all recipient addresses not rejected by mail rules are allowed, and its contents are appended to each recipient address. Back-end validation is omitted.

o   Handles RFC 2554 SMTP authentication. After authentication all recipients not rejected by mail rules are allowed, and back-end validation is omitted.

o   Automatically handles either bare NL or RFC 821/2821 compliant CR/NL end-of-line conventions.

o   Rejects messages that exceed $DATABYTES bytes in the body.

o   Times out connections after $TIMEOUT seconds of inactivity (defaults to 1200 seconds or 20 minutes), or $SESSION_TIMEOUT seconds after the connection was established (defaults to 86400 seconds or 24 hours).

o   Counts the number of "Received:" and "Delivered-To:" headers, and rejects the message if more than $MAXHOPS of either are seen (defaults to 100).

o   All error responses are logged.

o   Handles (ignores) RFC 1869 extended parameters on the ``RCPT TO:'' and ``MAIL FROM:'' commands.

o   Initial greeting message is configureable by $SMTPGREETING.

o   Rejects bounce messages (messages with an empty envelope sender) that attempt to deliver to multiple recipients.

o   Optionally adds a fixup "Received:" header for hosts that have different incoming and outgoing hostnames or IPs. Set $FIXUP_RECEIVED_HOST and $FIXUP_RECEIVED_IP if you want this header added.

BACK ENDS

smtpfront-echo
    Uses the echo backend to simply echo back the sender and recipient parameters, and the size of the data to the client.

smtpfront-qmail
    Uses the ``qmail validation features'' to validate addresses, and the ``qmail backend'' to deliver messages.

smtpfront-reject
    If $SMTPREJECT is set, all SMTP commands are rejected with this message. If the message starts with a "-", a permanent error number is used and the leading "-" is stripped. If $SMTPREJECT is not set, it execs its command line.

SEE ALSO
pop3front(8)

 /usr/share/doc/mailfront/html/mailrules.html
 /usr/share/doc/mailfront/html/qmail-validate.html
 /usr/share/doc/mailfront/html/qmail-backend.html

 http://untroubled.org/mailfront/