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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.
Learn more about qmail.
This is (and will be) a source-only RPM of the main qmail package
with several patches from the above web page added. This directory
contains all all the source files used to create the RPM.
Learn more about RPM.
The source rpm contains all of the other files in this directory.
This package requires the following packages:
Other packages recommended for efficient use of qmail are:
- procmail (you can find a patched version that delivers to maildirs
here)
- dot-forward
NOTE:
Do NOT distribute binary packages built from this distribution!
Such packages are explicitly disallowed by the author of qmail, and
frustrating as it may be, I understand his reasoning.
This packaging of qmail comes with no warranties of any kind.
Changes in release 5:
- Added an alternative smtp server package with the rblsmtpd.
- Removed the newline patch in favour of using fixcr with the smtp
daemons.
- Removed the /var/log/* directories in favour of separate "config"
packages that set up logging via either cyclog or qfilelog.
- Fixed the install script so that the installation will not fail if
the special users and groups already exist.
- Added a patch to allow the various programs to call a different
program instead of qmail-queue by setting the QMAILQUEUE environment
variable. This could be used in the smtp daemon to run a header
rewriter or to filter emails based on address patterns.
- Both the base qmail and qmail-qmqpc provide "qmail-queue" which is
required by the various daemons.
- The qmail-qmqpc package no longer uses the install-path patch.
Changes in release 4:
- Used a revised directory sync patch that catches all the possible
synchronization points.
- Added a patch to the qmqp client package that allows the server
connection timeout to be configured in
/etc/qmail/control/timeoutconnect, which defaults to 60
seconds instead of a hard-coded 10 second timeout (per server).
Changes in release 3:
- Added a patch to sync directories to make deliveries fully reliable.
- Moved the binaries from /usr/bin/qmail to
/usr/bin.
- Added a qmail-qmqpc null client package.
- Fixed bug in installation of the .qmail-msglog file.
- Added -R option to tcpserver in the qmqpd init script.
- Moved most of the user mail access utilities and associated files
into qmail-utils package, which is required by both the base qmail package
and the qmail-qmqpc package.
Features of this package:
- Separate packages for all the daemons.
- UID/GID numbers are configured into a set of control files instead
of hard-coded in the binaries. This would allow a binary RPM to be
distributed unmodified to any setup.
- The qmail init script uses the contents of
/etc/qmail/control/aliasempty for the aliasempty argument to
qmail-start
- Message logging is done via the string in
/etc/qmail/control/logger
- qmail-showctl shows the contents of all the control files used in
this package
- Intelligent login scripts (/etc/profile.d/qmail.sh and
/etc/profile.d/qmail.tcsh).
- A man page documenting the control files used by all the init scripts
- All the separate packages have their own start/stop init scripts
which use the modified supervise mentioned above
- All the network daemons use tcpserver/tcpcontrol to manage connections
- Chuck Foster's patch to bind to local interfaces on outgoing
connections, ported to qmail-1.03
- Evan Champion's patch to conredirect, ported to qmail-1.03
- A fix for broken CR/LF conventions on SMTP connections that doesn't
require a patch to qmail.
This distribution builds the following packages:
| Package Name |
Contents |
| qmail |
The main qmail binaries,
requires qmail-utils,
provides qmail-queue |
| qmail-cyclog |
Config files and directories for using cyclog for logging
messages |
| qmail-pop3d |
Support for the qmail POP-3 daemon |
| qmail-qfilelog |
Config files for using qfilelog for logging messages |
| qmail-qmqpc |
QMQP null-client package,
requires qmail-utils,
provides qmail-queue |
| qmail-qmqpd |
Support for the qmail QMQP daemon (for QMQP null clients),
requires qmail-queue |
| qmail-qmtpd |
Support for the qmail QMTP daemon,
requires qmail-queue |
| qmail-rblsmtpd |
Support for the SMTP daemon with RBL blocking,
requires qmail-queue |
| qmail-smtpd |
Support for the qmail SMTP daemon,
requires qmail-queue |
| qmail-utils |
Utilities common to both the null-client and main qmail packages,
requires qmail-queue |
If you have any comments or requests, please e-mail me at
bruce.guenter@qcc.sk.ca.