~mdw / qmail / blame
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1 | Mailing list management is one of qmail's strengths. Notable features: |
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| 3 | * qmail lets each user handle his own mailing lists. The delivery | |
| 4 | instructions for user-whatever go into ~user/.qmail-whatever. | |
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| 6 | * qmail makes it really easy to set up mailing list owners. If the user | |
| 7 | touches ~user/.qmail-whatever-owner, all bounces will come back to him. | |
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| 9 | * qmail supports VERPs, which permit completely reliable automated | |
| 10 | bounce handling for mailing lists of any size. | |
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| 12 | * SPEED---qmail blasts through mailing lists an order of magnitude | |
| 13 | faster than sendmail. For example, one message was successfully | |
| 14 | delivered to 150 hosts around the world in just 70 seconds, with qmail's | |
| 15 | out-of-the-box configuration. | |
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| 17 | * qmail automatically prevents mailing list loops, even across hosts. | |
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| 19 | * qlist, included in the qmail package, deals with subscription requests | |
| 20 | safely and automatically. | |
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| 22 | * qmail allows inconceivably gigantic mailing lists. No random limits. | |
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| 24 | * qmail handles aliasing and forwarding with the same simple mechanism. | |
| 25 | For example, Postmaster is controlled by ~alias/.qmail-postmaster. This | |
| 26 | means that cross-host loop detection also applies to aliases. |