Upstream qmail 1.01
[qmail] / qmail.7
1 .TH qmail 7
2 .SH "NAME"
3 qmail \- overview of qmail documentation
4 .SH "INTRODUCTION"
5 .B qmail
6 is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent.
7
8 Users who want to control incoming messages
9 should read
10 .BR dot-qmail (5).
11 Available commands for the
12 .B .qmail
13 file include
14 .BR qbiff (1),
15 .BR qlist (1),
16 .BR qreceipt (1),
17 .BR forward (1),
18 and (for advanced users)
19 .BR condredirect (1).
20 Other helpful commands include
21 .BR maildirmake (1),
22 .BR maildir2mbox (1),
23 and
24 .BR maildirwatch (1).
25
26 System administrators who want to control the entire
27 .B qmail
28 system should start with
29 .BR qmail-control (5)
30 and
31 .BR qmail-start (8).
32 There are three queue-monitoring tools:
33 .BR qmail-qread (8),
34 .BR qmail-qstat (8),
35 and
36 .BR qmail-tcpto (8).
37 Incoming SMTP connections are handled by
38 .BR qmail-smtpd (8).
39
40 .B qmail
41 offers two command-line message-sending interfaces:
42 .BR qmail-inject (8)
43 and
44 .BR mailsubj (1).
45 For background information on Internet mail messages,
46 see
47 .BR addresses (5),
48 .BR envelopes (5),
49 .BR qmail-header (5),
50 and
51 .BR forgeries (7).
52
53 Miscellaneous documentation includes
54 .BR qmail-upgrade (7),
55 .BR qmail-limits (7),
56 and
57 .BR qmail-pop3d (8).
58
59 This documentation describes version
60 1.01
61 of
62 .BR qmail .
63 See
64 .B http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html
65 for other
66 .BR qmail -related
67 software.