Merge branch 'mdw/addrcheck'

[qmail] / debian / control

Source: qmail
Maintainer: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Section: mail
Priority: extra
Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2

Package: qmail
Architecture: any
Section: mail
Priority: extra
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, netbase, procmail, 
 python (>= 2.3.5), python-cdb, nsict-cdb
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
Suggests: pine | mail-reader
Description: Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system
 qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It
 is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical
 Internet-connected UNIX hosts. 
 .
 Reliable: qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message,
 once accepted into the system, will never be lost. qmail also supports
 maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format. Maildirs, unlike mbox
 files and mh folders, won't be corrupted if the system crashes during
 delivery. Even better, not only can a user safely read his mail over NFS,
 but any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him at the same time. 
 .
 Efficient: On a Pentium, qmail can easily sustain 200000 local messages per
 day---that's separate messages injected and delivered to mailboxes in a real
 test!  Although remote deliveries are inherently limited by the slowness of
 DNS and SMTP, qmail overlaps 20 simultaneous deliveries by default, so it
 zooms quickly through mailing lists.
 .
 Simple: qmail is vastly smaller than any other Internet MTA. Some reasons why:
 (1) Other MTAs have separate forwarding, aliasing, and mailing list
  mechanisms. qmail has one simple forwarding mechanism that lets users handle
  their own mailing lists.
 (2) Other MTAs offer a spectrum of delivery modes, from fast+unsafe to
  slow+queued. qmail-send is instantly triggered by new items in the queue, so
  the qmail system has just one delivery mode: fast+queued.
 (3) Other MTAs include, in effect, a specialized version of inetd that
  watches the load average. qmail's design inherently limits the machine load,
  so qmail-smtpd can safely run from your system's inetd. 
 .
 Replacement for sendmail: qmail supports host and user masquerading, full
 host hiding, virtual domains, null clients, list-owner rewriting, relay
 control, double-bounce recording, arbitrary RFC 822 address lists, cross-host
 mailing list loop detection, per-recipient checkpointing, downed host
 backoffs, independent message retry schedules, etc.  In short, it's up to
 speed on modern MTA features. qmail also includes a drop-in ``sendmail''
 wrapper so that it will be used transparently by your current UAs. 

Package: mini-qmail
Architecture: any
Section: mail
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Provides: mail-transport-agent
Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
Description: Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system
 qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It
 is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical
 Internet-connected UNIX hosts. 
 .
 This is the mini-qmail installation which can't deliver locally.  It 
 relies on a QMQP server on another host providing it with a reliable
 remote mail queue.  As a result, it's really easy to configure and 
 doesn't require any hassle.

Package: qmail-src
Architecture: all
Section: mail
Depends: dpkg-dev, fakeroot | sudo 
Priority: extra
Description: Source only package for building qmail binary package
 qmail is a secure Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system.
 .
 Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) only gives permission for qmail to be
 distributed in source form, or binary for by approval.  This package
 has been put together to allow people to easily build a qmail binary
 package for themselves, from source.
 .
 If there is a package called qmail available, then Dan has approved the
 binary version of the package for approval, so you might as well install
 that and save yourself some effort.