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+Source: qmail
+Maintainer: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
+Section: mail
+Priority: extra
+Standards-Version: 2.1.2.2
+
+Package: qmail
+Architecture: any
+Section: mail
+Priority: extra
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, netbase, procmail
+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: 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.
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