Minor fixing.
[qmail] / debian / control
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9312c29d 1Source: qmail
b2f0cda3 2Maintainer: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
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3Section: mail
4Priority: extra
5Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2
6
7Package: qmail
8Architecture: any
9Section: mail
10Priority: extra
11Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, netbase, procmail
12Provides: mail-transport-agent
13Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
14Suggests: pine | mail-reader
15Description: Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system
16 qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It
17 is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical
18 Internet-connected UNIX hosts.
19 .
20 Reliable: qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message,
21 once accepted into the system, will never be lost. qmail also supports
22 maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format. Maildirs, unlike mbox
23 files and mh folders, won't be corrupted if the system crashes during
24 delivery. Even better, not only can a user safely read his mail over NFS,
25 but any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him at the same time.
26 .
27 Efficient: On a Pentium, qmail can easily sustain 200000 local messages per
28 day---that's separate messages injected and delivered to mailboxes in a real
29 test! Although remote deliveries are inherently limited by the slowness of
30 DNS and SMTP, qmail overlaps 20 simultaneous deliveries by default, so it
31 zooms quickly through mailing lists.
32 .
33 Simple: qmail is vastly smaller than any other Internet MTA. Some reasons why:
34 (1) Other MTAs have separate forwarding, aliasing, and mailing list
35 mechanisms. qmail has one simple forwarding mechanism that lets users handle
36 their own mailing lists.
37 (2) Other MTAs offer a spectrum of delivery modes, from fast+unsafe to
38 slow+queued. qmail-send is instantly triggered by new items in the queue, so
39 the qmail system has just one delivery mode: fast+queued.
40 (3) Other MTAs include, in effect, a specialized version of inetd that
41 watches the load average. qmail's design inherently limits the machine load,
42 so qmail-smtpd can safely run from your system's inetd.
43 .
44 Replacement for sendmail: qmail supports host and user masquerading, full
45 host hiding, virtual domains, null clients, list-owner rewriting, relay
46 control, double-bounce recording, arbitrary RFC 822 address lists, cross-host
47 mailing list loop detection, per-recipient checkpointing, downed host
48 backoffs, independent message retry schedules, etc. In short, it's up to
49 speed on modern MTA features. qmail also includes a drop-in ``sendmail''
50 wrapper so that it will be used transparently by your current UAs.
51
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52Package: mini-qmail
53Architecture: any
54Section: mail
55Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
56Provides: mail-transport-agent
57Conflicts: mail-transport-agent
58Description: Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system
59 qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It
60 is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical
61 Internet-connected UNIX hosts.
62 .
63 This is the mini-qmail installation which can't deliver locally. It
64 relies on a QMQP server on another host providing it with a reliable
65 remote mail queue. As a result, it's really easy to configure and
66 doesn't require any hassle.
67
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68Package: qmail-src
69Architecture: all
70Section: mail
71Depends: dpkg-dev, fakeroot | sudo
72Priority: extra
73Description: Source only package for building qmail binary package
74 qmail is a secure Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system.
75 .
76 Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) only gives permission for qmail to be
77 distributed in source form, or binary for by approval. This package
78 has been put together to allow people to easily build a qmail binary
79 package for themselves, from source.
80 .
81 If there is a package called qmail available, then Dan has approved the
82 binary version of the package for approval, so you might as well install
83 that and save yourself some effort.