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+Here are some of qmail's features. 
+
+Setup:
+*  automatic adaptation to your UNIX variant---no configuration needed
+*  AIX, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, HP/UX, Irix, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, Solaris, and more
+*  automatic per-host configuration (config, config-fast)
+*  quick installation---no big list of decisions to make
+
+Security:
+*  clear separation between addresses, files, and programs
+*  minimization of setuid code (qmail-queue)
+*  minimization of root code (qmail-start, qmail-lspawn)
+*  five-way trust partitioning---security in depth
+*  optional logging of one-way hashes, entire contents, etc. (QUEUE_EXTRA)
+
+Message construction (qmail-inject):
+*  RFC 822, RFC 1123
+*  full support for address groups
+*  automatic conversion of old-style address lists to RFC 822 format
+*  sendmail hook for compatibility with current user agents
+*  header line length limited only by memory
+*  host masquerading (control/defaulthost)
+*  user masquerading ($MAILUSER, $MAILHOST)
+*  automatic Mail-Followup-To creation ($QMAILMFTFILE)
+
+SMTP service (qmail-smtpd):
+*  RFC 821, RFC 1123, RFC 1651, RFC 1652, RFC 1854
+*  8-bit clean
+*  931/1413/ident/TAP callback (tcp-env)
+*  relay control---stop unauthorized relaying by outsiders (control/rcpthosts)
+*  no interference between relay control and forwarding
+*  tcpd hook---reject SMTP connections from known abusers
+*  automatic recognition of local IP addresses
+*  per-buffer timeouts
+*  hop counting
+
+Queue management (qmail-send):
+*  instant handling of messages added to queue
+*  parallelism limit (control/concurrencyremote, control/concurrencylocal)
+*  split queue directory---no slowdown when queue gets big
+*  quadratic retry schedule---old messages tried less often
+*  independent message retry schedules
+*  automatic safe queueing---no loss of mail if system crashes
+*  automatic per-recipient checkpointing
+*  automatic queue cleanups (qmail-clean)
+*  queue viewing (qmail-qread)
+*  detailed delivery statistics (qmailanalog, available separately)
+
+Bounces (qmail-send):
+*  QSBMF bounce messages---both machine-readable and human-readable
+*  HCMSSC support---language-independent RFC 1893 error codes
+*  double bounces sent to postmaster
+
+Routing by domain (qmail-send):
+*  any number of names for local host (control/locals)
+*  any number of virtual domains (control/virtualdomains)
+*  domain wildcards (control/virtualdomains)
+*  configurable percent hack support (control/percenthack)
+*  UUCP hook
+
+SMTP delivery (qmail-remote):
+*  RFC 821, RFC 974, RFC 1123
+*  8-bit clean
+*  automatic downed host backoffs
+*  artificial routing---smarthost, localnet, mailertable (control/smtproutes)
+*  per-buffer timeouts
+*  passive SMTP queue---perfect for SLIP/PPP (serialmail, available separately)
+
+Forwarding and mailing lists (qmail-local):
+*  address wildcards (.qmail-default, .qmail-foo-default, etc.)
+*  sendmail .forward compatibility (dot-forward, available separately)
+*  fast forwarding databases (fastforward, available separately)
+*  sendmail /etc/aliases compatibility (fastforward/newaliases)
+*  mailing list owners---automatically divert bounces and vacation messages
+*  VERPs---automatic recipient identification for mailing list bounces
+*  Delivered-To---automatic loop prevention, even across hosts
+*  automatic mailing list management (ezmlm, available separately)
+
+Local delivery (qmail-local):
+*  user-controlled address hierarchy---fred controls fred-anything
+*  mbox delivery
+*  reliable NFS delivery (maildir)
+*  user-controlled program delivery: procmail etc. (qmail-command)
+*  optional new-mail notification (qbiff)
+*  optional NRUDT return receipts (qreceipt)
+*  conditional filtering (condredirect, bouncesaying)
+
+POP3 service (qmail-popup, qmail-pop3d):
+*  RFC 1939
+*  UIDL support
+*  TOP support
+*  APOP hook
+*  modular password checking (checkpassword, available separately)