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| author | manuel <manuel@mausz.at> | 2013-02-04 00:08:53 +0100 |
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| committer | manuel <manuel@mausz.at> | 2013-02-04 00:08:53 +0100 |
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qmail 1.03 import
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| 1 | Here are some of qmail's features. | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | Setup: | ||
| 4 | * automatic adaptation to your UNIX variant---no configuration needed | ||
| 5 | * AIX, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, HP/UX, Irix, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, Solaris, and more | ||
| 6 | * automatic per-host configuration (config, config-fast) | ||
| 7 | * quick installation---no big list of decisions to make | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | Security: | ||
| 10 | * clear separation between addresses, files, and programs | ||
| 11 | * minimization of setuid code (qmail-queue) | ||
| 12 | * minimization of root code (qmail-start, qmail-lspawn) | ||
| 13 | * five-way trust partitioning---security in depth | ||
| 14 | * optional logging of one-way hashes, entire contents, etc. (QUEUE_EXTRA) | ||
| 15 | |||
| 16 | Message construction (qmail-inject): | ||
| 17 | * RFC 822, RFC 1123 | ||
| 18 | * full support for address groups | ||
| 19 | * automatic conversion of old-style address lists to RFC 822 format | ||
| 20 | * sendmail hook for compatibility with current user agents | ||
| 21 | * header line length limited only by memory | ||
| 22 | * host masquerading (control/defaulthost) | ||
| 23 | * user masquerading ($MAILUSER, $MAILHOST) | ||
| 24 | * automatic Mail-Followup-To creation ($QMAILMFTFILE) | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | SMTP service (qmail-smtpd): | ||
| 27 | * RFC 821, RFC 1123, RFC 1651, RFC 1652, RFC 1854 | ||
| 28 | * 8-bit clean | ||
| 29 | * 931/1413/ident/TAP callback (tcp-env) | ||
| 30 | * relay control---stop unauthorized relaying by outsiders (control/rcpthosts) | ||
| 31 | * no interference between relay control and forwarding | ||
| 32 | * tcpd hook---reject SMTP connections from known abusers | ||
| 33 | * automatic recognition of local IP addresses | ||
| 34 | * per-buffer timeouts | ||
| 35 | * hop counting | ||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | Queue management (qmail-send): | ||
| 38 | * instant handling of messages added to queue | ||
| 39 | * parallelism limit (control/concurrencyremote, control/concurrencylocal) | ||
| 40 | * split queue directory---no slowdown when queue gets big | ||
| 41 | * quadratic retry schedule---old messages tried less often | ||
| 42 | * independent message retry schedules | ||
| 43 | * automatic safe queueing---no loss of mail if system crashes | ||
| 44 | * automatic per-recipient checkpointing | ||
| 45 | * automatic queue cleanups (qmail-clean) | ||
| 46 | * queue viewing (qmail-qread) | ||
| 47 | * detailed delivery statistics (qmailanalog, available separately) | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | Bounces (qmail-send): | ||
| 50 | * QSBMF bounce messages---both machine-readable and human-readable | ||
| 51 | * HCMSSC support---language-independent RFC 1893 error codes | ||
| 52 | * double bounces sent to postmaster | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | Routing by domain (qmail-send): | ||
| 55 | * any number of names for local host (control/locals) | ||
| 56 | * any number of virtual domains (control/virtualdomains) | ||
| 57 | * domain wildcards (control/virtualdomains) | ||
| 58 | * configurable percent hack support (control/percenthack) | ||
| 59 | * UUCP hook | ||
| 60 | |||
| 61 | SMTP delivery (qmail-remote): | ||
| 62 | * RFC 821, RFC 974, RFC 1123 | ||
| 63 | * 8-bit clean | ||
| 64 | * automatic downed host backoffs | ||
| 65 | * artificial routing---smarthost, localnet, mailertable (control/smtproutes) | ||
| 66 | * per-buffer timeouts | ||
| 67 | * passive SMTP queue---perfect for SLIP/PPP (serialmail, available separately) | ||
| 68 | |||
| 69 | Forwarding and mailing lists (qmail-local): | ||
| 70 | * address wildcards (.qmail-default, .qmail-foo-default, etc.) | ||
| 71 | * sendmail .forward compatibility (dot-forward, available separately) | ||
| 72 | * fast forwarding databases (fastforward, available separately) | ||
| 73 | * sendmail /etc/aliases compatibility (fastforward/newaliases) | ||
| 74 | * mailing list owners---automatically divert bounces and vacation messages | ||
| 75 | * VERPs---automatic recipient identification for mailing list bounces | ||
| 76 | * Delivered-To---automatic loop prevention, even across hosts | ||
| 77 | * automatic mailing list management (ezmlm, available separately) | ||
| 78 | |||
| 79 | Local delivery (qmail-local): | ||
| 80 | * user-controlled address hierarchy---fred controls fred-anything | ||
| 81 | * mbox delivery | ||
| 82 | * reliable NFS delivery (maildir) | ||
| 83 | * user-controlled program delivery: procmail etc. (qmail-command) | ||
| 84 | * optional new-mail notification (qbiff) | ||
| 85 | * optional NRUDT return receipts (qreceipt) | ||
| 86 | * conditional filtering (condredirect, bouncesaying) | ||
| 87 | |||
| 88 | POP3 service (qmail-popup, qmail-pop3d): | ||
| 89 | * RFC 1939 | ||
| 90 | * UIDL support | ||
| 91 | * TOP support | ||
| 92 | * APOP hook | ||
| 93 | * modular password checking (checkpassword, available separately) | ||