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The smtpd daemon talks the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) with other
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SMTP daemons to receive mail from them, and saves it into a spool directory
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for later processing. It is the store portion of an SMTP store and forward
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proxy. The symbiotic companion program smtpfwdd is used to forward the
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spooled mail on to its eventual destination.
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smtpd is invoked from a super-server such as inetd or juniperd.
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Access control rules based on the connecting host, and the smtp envelope are
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supported. It contains some powerful features for stopping inbound or
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outbound SPAM.
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