qmail
- Posted by admin on May 15th, 2007 filed in Linux Applications
Source only package for building qmail binary package
Version: 1.03
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.
To build a binary deb package, first install the qmail-src package, then type the command “build-qmail”. If you try “apt-get source –build qmail-src” only the qmail-src package will be built. You will need to install qmail-src and type the command “build-qmail” to get a usable binary package of qmail. Also be sure to build and install ucspi-tcp before installing the binary qmail package. Install the ucspi-tcp-src package to get ucspi-tcp.
This package builds a binary .deb that is FHS compliant and conforms to the Debian standards guidelines. The resulting binary packages are not suitable for re-distribution.
There are pre-compiled binary packages for qmail available, but they do not conform to the Debian standards, and are not available in the official archive.
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