| 1 | Source: qmail |
| 2 | Maintainer: Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk> |
| 3 | Section: mail |
| 4 | Priority: extra |
| 5 | Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2 |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Package: qmail |
| 8 | Architecture: any |
| 9 | Section: mail |
| 10 | Priority: extra |
| 11 | Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, netbase, procmail, |
| 12 | python (>= 2.3.5), python-cdb, nsict-cdb |
| 13 | Provides: mail-transport-agent |
| 14 | Conflicts: mail-transport-agent |
| 15 | Suggests: pine | mail-reader |
| 16 | Description: Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system |
| 17 | qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It |
| 18 | is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical |
| 19 | Internet-connected UNIX hosts. |
| 20 | . |
| 21 | Reliable: qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message, |
| 22 | once accepted into the system, will never be lost. qmail also supports |
| 23 | maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format. Maildirs, unlike mbox |
| 24 | files and mh folders, won't be corrupted if the system crashes during |
| 25 | delivery. Even better, not only can a user safely read his mail over NFS, |
| 26 | but any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him at the same time. |
| 27 | . |
| 28 | Efficient: On a Pentium, qmail can easily sustain 200000 local messages per |
| 29 | day---that's separate messages injected and delivered to mailboxes in a real |
| 30 | test! Although remote deliveries are inherently limited by the slowness of |
| 31 | DNS and SMTP, qmail overlaps 20 simultaneous deliveries by default, so it |
| 32 | zooms quickly through mailing lists. |
| 33 | . |
| 34 | Simple: qmail is vastly smaller than any other Internet MTA. Some reasons why: |
| 35 | (1) Other MTAs have separate forwarding, aliasing, and mailing list |
| 36 | mechanisms. qmail has one simple forwarding mechanism that lets users handle |
| 37 | their own mailing lists. |
| 38 | (2) Other MTAs offer a spectrum of delivery modes, from fast+unsafe to |
| 39 | slow+queued. qmail-send is instantly triggered by new items in the queue, so |
| 40 | the qmail system has just one delivery mode: fast+queued. |
| 41 | (3) Other MTAs include, in effect, a specialized version of inetd that |
| 42 | watches the load average. qmail's design inherently limits the machine load, |
| 43 | so qmail-smtpd can safely run from your system's inetd. |
| 44 | . |
| 45 | Replacement for sendmail: qmail supports host and user masquerading, full |
| 46 | host hiding, virtual domains, null clients, list-owner rewriting, relay |
| 47 | control, double-bounce recording, arbitrary RFC 822 address lists, cross-host |
| 48 | mailing list loop detection, per-recipient checkpointing, downed host |
| 49 | backoffs, independent message retry schedules, etc. In short, it's up to |
| 50 | speed on modern MTA features. qmail also includes a drop-in ``sendmail'' |
| 51 | wrapper so that it will be used transparently by your current UAs. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | Package: mini-qmail |
| 54 | Architecture: any |
| 55 | Section: mail |
| 56 | Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} |
| 57 | Provides: mail-transport-agent |
| 58 | Conflicts: mail-transport-agent |
| 59 | Description: Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system |
| 60 | qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It |
| 61 | is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical |
| 62 | Internet-connected UNIX hosts. |
| 63 | . |
| 64 | This is the mini-qmail installation which can't deliver locally. It |
| 65 | relies on a QMQP server on another host providing it with a reliable |
| 66 | remote mail queue. As a result, it's really easy to configure and |
| 67 | doesn't require any hassle. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Package: qmail-src |
| 70 | Architecture: all |
| 71 | Section: mail |
| 72 | Depends: dpkg-dev, fakeroot | sudo |
| 73 | Priority: extra |
| 74 | Description: Source only package for building qmail binary package |
| 75 | qmail is a secure Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system. |
| 76 | . |
| 77 | Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) only gives permission for qmail to be |
| 78 | distributed in source form, or binary for by approval. This package |
| 79 | has been put together to allow people to easily build a qmail binary |
| 80 | package for themselves, from source. |
| 81 | . |
| 82 | If there is a package called qmail available, then Dan has approved the |
| 83 | binary version of the package for approval, so you might as well install |
| 84 | that and save yourself some effort. |