# Source: fastforward # Package: fastforward # Versions: fastforward (1:0.51-10), fastforward (1:0.51-11), fastforward (1:0.51-11+b1), fastforward (1:0.51-12), fastforward (1:0.51-3), fastforward (1:0.51-3+b1), fastforward (1:0.51-3+b2), fastforward (1:0.51-3.1), fastforward (1:0.51-3.1~deb9u1), fastforward (1:0.51-3.2), fastforward (1:0.51-4), fastforward (1:0.51-6), fastforward (1:0.51-8), fastforward (1:0.51-8+b1), fastforward (1:0.51-9) # This Description is active # Prioritize: 47 Description: handles qmail forwarding according to a cdb database It can create forwarding databases from a sendmail-style /etc/aliases or from user-oriented virtual-domain tables. . fastforward supports external mailing lists, stored in a binary format for fast access. It has a tool to convert sendmail-style include files into binary lists. . fastforward is more reliable than sendmail. sendmail can't deal with long aliases, or deeply nested aliases, or deeply nested include files; fastforward has no limits other than memory. sendmail can produce corrupted alias files if the system crashes; fastforward is crashproof. . fastforward's database-building tools are much faster than sendmail's newaliases. Even better, fastforward deliveries don't pause while the database is being rebuilt. . fastforward does not support insecure sendmail-style program deliveries from include files; you can use qmail's secure built-in mechanisms instead. fastforward does support program deliveries from /etc/aliases. Description-vi: . . . . # other Descriptions of the fastforward package with a translation in vi: #