qmail for Debian
----------------

This package is based on the netqmail distribution of qmail put together
by a motley krewe of qmail contributors (see the README).  It is derived
from Daniel Bernstein's qmail-1.03 plus bug fixes, a few feature
enhancements, and some documentation.

This package does not install qmail to receive and deliver mail on the
system.

To enable qmail as mail-tranfer-agent on Debian, you need to install the
qmail-run package, or follow the instructions in [0]Life with qmail,
chapter 2.8.

With this package, qmail is set up according to [0]Life with qmail up to
chapter 2.7., with the following exceptions:

This package includes the [1]qmail-verify patch from Andrew Richards and
its pre-requisite, the [2]errmsg patch.

qmail's home on Debian is /var/lib/qmail/, not /var/qmail/, as the latter
does not comply with the FHS.  To be consistent with existing programs and
documentation, it is recommended to create a compatibility symlink
/var/qmail -> /var/lib/qmail after installing this package, do

 # ln -s /var/lib/qmail /var/qmail

daemontools' (and runit's) directory for supervised services on Debian is
/etc/service/, not /service/.  To be consistent with existing programs and
documentation, it is recommended to create a compatibility symlink
/service -> /etc/service.  If not yet done, do

 # ln -s /etc/service /service


[0] http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html
[1] http://free.acrconsulting.co.uk/email/qmail-verify.html
[2] http://free.acrconsulting.co.uk/email/qmail-errmsg.html

 -- Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>, Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:47:25 +0000