Topic: Why use Mailfront instead of qmail-smtp?

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Just wondering what is better about mailfront than qmail-smtpd?  I was going to enable smtpauth on my SME box, but then remembered that it uses Mailfront, so had to disregard some instructions I had picked up.  I am interested in the differences, as I don't see Mailfront used in many places, and do prefer to have the received header without the interface listed after the hostname of the sme box.

Thanks,
Andrew.

[Gordon Rowell]

Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just wondering what is better about mailfront than
> qmail-smtpd?  

Two major benefits:

- mailfront allows messages to be handled by some other program before calling qmail-queue
- mailfront passes mail relay tests which provide "false positive" results with qmail-smtpd (i.e. there's nothing wrong with qmail-smtpd in this respect, but the mail relay tests think there is)

Gordon