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- Mailing list management is one of qmail's strengths. Notable features:
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- * qmail lets each user handle his own mailing lists. The delivery
- instructions for user-whatever go into ~user/.qmail-whatever.
-
- * qmail makes it really easy to set up mailing list owners. If the user
- touches ~user/.qmail-whatever-owner, all bounces will come back to him.
-
- * qmail supports VERPs, which permit completely reliable automated
- bounce handling for mailing lists of any size.
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- * SPEED---qmail blasts through mailing lists an order of magnitude
- faster than sendmail. For example, one message was successfully
- delivered to 150 hosts around the world in just 70 seconds, with qmail's
- out-of-the-box configuration.
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- * qmail automatically prevents mailing list loops, even across hosts.
-
- * qlist, included in the qmail package, deals with subscription requests
- safely and automatically.
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- * qmail allows inconceivably gigantic mailing lists. No random limits.
-
- * qmail handles aliasing and forwarding with the same simple mechanism.
- For example, Postmaster is controlled by ~alias/.qmail-postmaster. This
- means that cross-host loop detection also applies to aliases.
-